Re: mouse support in the Info reader (was: newer info reader does not allow text selection per mouse)

[Gavin Smith]

On 6 April 2015 at 15:54, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> It might matter if one method works better than another, or the user
>> might just be curious. I was mainly thinking that this variable might
>> have other options in the future, such as other terminal modes (there
>> are several that can read mouse events) or getting events from the gpm
>> daemon.
>
> Ah, okay.  Then I think those other options should not be available on
> Windows, as there's only the "normal-tracking" method there.  OTOH,
> having a Windows-only value would mean users cannot have
> platform-independent init files and/or muscle memory.

Maybe it is obvious, but it is not clear from your reply that you
realise that "normal tracking mode" is not used under Windows. By this
I mean specifically the terminal mode entered with the "ESC [ ? 1000
h" sequence. (reference
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html#h2-Mouse-Tracking).

One idea is to have an "automatic" option for the "mouse" variable
that would use whatever method was available. But I am happy enough
with the way it works at present, as I said.