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When I try to scroll with mouse I receive a message saying Wrong type argument: commandp, mouse-5 or Wrong type argument: commandp, mouse-4. This happens after I tried a lot of random fixes. Before the message was something like C-M-) and C-M-( is undefined.

But... If I press CTRL while mouse scrolling, it works fine as expected.

How can I fix that? Thank you.

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  • Are you using Emacs in a terminal?
    – user12563
    Apr 22, 2019 at 10:52
  • Emacs GUI. I tried to use on Emacs -nw and when I tried to scroll I got it: (((((((()))))) ((((((((((((()))) )))))))))))
    – Felipe
    Apr 22, 2019 at 10:54
  • Have you tried running Emacs without your init file? (emacs -q)
    – user12563
    Apr 22, 2019 at 10:58
  • Yes. But I get the message C-M-) (scroll down) and C-M-( (scroll up). I was trying solution in this post: emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/36024/… without success in my init file. Here: emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/36024/… I discovered that if I press CTRL everything works fine.
    – Felipe
    Apr 22, 2019 at 11:02
  • Can you show us the output of C-h l right after you used the wheel?
    – Stefan
    Apr 23, 2019 at 15:29

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May not be helpful, but I have the following in my init file to fix a scroll-wheel issue on Lubuntu. I was using an older Logitech mouse at the time. You'll probably have to adjust <mouse-11>/<mouse-12>.

(when (and (string= system-name "foo"
           (window-system))
  (global-set-key (kbd "<mouse-11>") (kbd "<mouse-4>"))
  (global-set-key (kbd "<mouse-12>") (kbd "<mouse-5>")))

OP EDIT (the final code, in my case, that fits my original question):

;; Fix mouse wheel
(global-set-key (kbd "C-M-(") (kbd "<mouse-4>"))
(global-set-key (kbd "C-M-)") (kbd "<mouse-5>"))
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  • You can probably get it to work slightly more reliably if you use (define-key function-key-map (kbd "<mouse-11>") (kbd "<mouse-4>")) instead of global-set-key.
    – Stefan
    Apr 23, 2019 at 15:30

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