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How do I use an Intellimouse with Emacs?

April 26, 2017Emacs intellimouse

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How do I use an Intellimouse with Emacs?

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The Emacs 20.3 pretests and above support the Intellimouse on both NT and Win9X. Emacs 19.34.6 supports it on NT, but not on Windows 95. Clicking the mouse wheel is interpreted as a mouse-2 event, which is normally bound to mouse-yank-at-click (i.e., paste). Since it is easy to accidentally click the mouse wheel, you might find that you inadvertantly paste text as you scroll the wheel. To prevent this from happening, you can disable the mouse-2 binding in your startup file: (global-unset-key [mouse-2]) Walt Buehring has extended the implementations of mouse-wheel-scroll-line and mouse-wheel-scroll-screen. To use, download and place in your startup or site-init files. For more details on interpreting mouse-wheel events in elisp, see Michael Duggan’s description of the implementation.