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		alxp on Oct 28, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Setting up Emacs as a Ruby development environment... I looked into those, but my preference for not ever leaving the home keys is trumping using the scroll wheel for now.

dhemmerling on Oct 28, 2013 [–]

You are right to not do so. Describing what is not impossible is hardly advocacy, however. There are a few uses for allowing mouse in terminal emulated emacs of varying utility. Same with the GUI version, but just to get basic mouse/wheel functionality is not one of them.

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