When in org-mode, running the export command will open a windows with all the export options. However, my mouse scroll behaves erratically and I am not able to scroll down or move at all, not even by clicking on the scroll bars. (The problem is recurrent in both Linux and OS X, using org-mode version 8.2.10-30-gca21b7-elp, and GNU Emacs 24.4.1.)
See screen capture here:
How can I fix this problem?
When reading a export command org enters a modal state, where it basically takes over Emacs reading of input. It does this by continuesly reading an event and branching into it's corresponding sub-menu until a full export-command is determined.
The function it uses for this purpose is read-char-exclusive, which,
as the name suggests, only reads characters and ignores any other
events (like e.g. mouse events). These events are simply dropped,
though they are still echoed in the mini-buffer (for some reason).
read-char-exclusive is related to read-char because they both call read-filtered-event. Try scrolling the mouse wheel after doing M-: (read-char), read-filtered-event will throw an error. read-char-exclusive doesn't tell read-filtered-event to throw an error, it tells it to keep reading until it gets a valid input. Perhaps read-filtered-event should blank out the minibuffer if it gets a non-ascii character and error_nonascii is 0.
Simple solution:
If you notice the top of the export-key-hint window, you'll get the line of "Use SPC, DEL, C-n, or C-p to navigate.", so you can just use them to scroll up/down the window for hidden content.
Simple solution about splitting window:
(setq split-height-threshold nil)
(setq split-width-threshold 0)
When this happens, maximize the window(using Alt-F10 or other shortcut), and C-c C-e, it will open the key-options window side-by-side(horizontally), you'll see all the content of the window.
Or if you want to split the window side-by-side or up-down according to your screen, put this snippet into your .emacs or init.el:
;; Automatically split window horizontally(side-by-side) if current window is wide enough
(defun display-new-buffer (buffer force-other-window)
"If BUFFER is visible, select it.
If it's not visible and there's only one window, split the current window
and select BUFFER in the new window.
If the current window (before the split) is more than 100 columns wide,
split horizontally(left/right), else split vertically(up/down).
If the current buffer contains more than one window, select BUFFER in the
least recently used window.
This function returns the window which holds BUFFER. FORCE-OTHER-WINDOW is ignored."
(or (get-buffer-window buffer)
(if (one-window-p)
(let ((new-win
(if (> (window-width) 100)
(split-window-horizontally)
(split-window-vertically))))
(set-window-buffer new-win buffer)
new-win)
(let ((new-win (get-lru-window)))
(set-window-buffer new-win buffer)
new-win))))
;; use display-buffer-alist instead of display-buffer-function if the following fails
(setq display-buffer-function 'display-new-buffer)
When this happens, maximize the window(using Alt-F10 or other shortcut), and C-c C-e, it will open the key-options window side-by-side(horizontally), you'll see all the content of the window. Adjust the 100 value in the snippet for your screen.
org-modeyou are using.SPC,DEL,C-n, andC-p?