Re: Mouse wheel release events?

[Daniele Nicolodi]

On 30/11/2021 03:28, Po Lu wrote:
> Some mouse wheels generate special events when the user moves his finger
> off the wheel, even if the wheel was not previously clicked.
>
> These events are used by most applications to start inertial scrolling,
> support for which I would like to add to Emacs.
>
> I want to add a `wheel-release' event that is sent every time Emacs
> receives such an event from the mouse wheel.  Is that okay?

Which environment gives applications access to this kind of events? I 
think on (modernish) GNU/Linux these would be handled by libinput 
directly, relieving the application from the duty of handling these.

Cheers,
Dan