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[PATCH] Scroll with mouse wheel in calendar

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 78298 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: bug#78298: [PATCH] Scroll with mouse wheel in calendar
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 09:23:01 +0300

> From: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
> Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de,  juri <at> linkov.net,  78298 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 21:19:32 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
> >> Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de,  juri <at> linkov.net,  78298 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >> Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 15:59:10 +0200
> >> 
> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> >> +(defun calendar-scroll-left-year (arg &optional event)
> >> >> +  "Scroll the displayed calendar window left by 12*ARG months.
> >> >> +If ARG is negative the calendar is scrolled right.
> >> >
> >> > Bother: the first and the 2nd sentences contradict each other.  Are we
> >> > scrolling the window or the text shown in the window?  Their
> >> > directions are opposite.
> >> 
> >> No they do not contradict: a negative argument on scroll-left command
> >> will actually scroll right and vice versa.
> >
> > We are mis-communicating, I think.  My point was that the first
> > sentence talks about scrolling the window, the second one about the
> > calendar (i.e. the text).  
> 
> Ah ok, sorry about that.  It is the calendar (the text) that is scroll
> in all these commands.  I have copy pasted the docstring from another of
> the scroll command.  I think we should fix all of them.

Yes, please.

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