Re: Why the `click' modifier for a mouse-wheel event?

[Jason Rumney]

Chong Yidong wrote:

> "Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   
> > Subject line says it all.
> >
> > In Emacs 22 (and 21, 20...), using the mouse wheel did not add any modifiers to
> > the event that was read.  In Emacs 23, `event-modifiers' for a
> > `mouse-wheel-down-event' or `mouse-wheel-up-event' returns `(click)'.
> >     
>
> I think this change was made to make Windows behave like the other
> ports.  IIRC, this was in response to a bug report by Lennart (?), but I
> can't find it in the tracker right now.
>   

It was bug#687, about wheel events triggering mouse-avoidance, since 
they were not considered as mouse events.