Re: Autoload failed to define function mwheel-install

[Kevin Rodgers]

Bob Marcum wrote:
> I received this message upon starting up emacs after upgrading from RedHat 7.1 
> to
> Fedora Core 3, now using emacs 21.3.  I struggled for a while trying to 
> determine
> a solution.  A search using google for this error message found one person's
> experience which gave some guidance.
>
> I solved this problem by including the line (load
> "usr/share/emacs/21.3/lisp/mwheel.elc") as the first line in my .emacs startup
> file.
>
> I know this is surely not the _right_ way to solve this problem.  This following
> line should have solved the problem, but it doesn't.
> ( autoload 'mwheel-install "mwheel" "Enable mouse wheel support" t)
> (mwheel-install)
>
> I would have thought emacs would look in /usr/share/emacs/21.3 and all of its
> directories to find mwheel.elc and resolve the reference to mwheel in the
> autoload statement, but it did not.
>
> Is this a bug or just some configuration error I have?

I suspect you've got multiple, incompatible versions of mwheel in your
load-path.  What does `M-x list-load-path-shadows' show?

BTW, here's all I have in my .emacs to enable the mouse wheel in Emacs 
21.3 (i386-pc-solaris2.8, X toolkit):

(mouse-wheel-mode 1)

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Kevin Rodgers