Re: mouse-wheel mode (and probably other stuff) broken due to use of global-map

[Tim Van Holder]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> > So I modified affected packages to use (current-global-map) and not
> > global-map; this complies with the documentation and should keep
> > them working reliably.
>
> Maybe we should install that change.  Which packages did you change
> in this way?

Turns out I only changed mwheel.el (patch below) and two site
packages that are used to set up preferred bindings for the function
keys.

Index: mwheel.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/mwheel.el,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -r1.10 mwheel.el
--- mwheel.el   2 Mar 2002 08:18:12 -0000       1.10
+++ mwheel.el   21 Mar 2002 11:16:24 -0000
@@ -169,9 +169,9 @@
     (condition-case ()
        (dolist (key keys)
          (cond (mouse-wheel-mode
-                (define-key global-map key 'mwheel-scroll))
-               ((eq (lookup-key global-map key) 'mwheel-scroll)
-                (define-key global-map key nil))))
+                (define-key (current-global-map) key 'mwheel-scroll))
+               ((eq (lookup-key (current-global-map) key) 'mwheel-scroll)
+                (define-key (current-global-map) key nil))))
       (error nil))))

 ;;; Compatibility entry point

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