Re: Enabling Xterm-Mouse-Mode

[Jared Finder]

On 2024-12-06 03:50, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > > From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> > > Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 08:51:01 +0000
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there a reason that we do not enable `xterm-mouse-mode' in emacs 
> > > -nw
> > > by default?  Are there issues with the implementation that prevent 
> > > the
> > > change?
> >
> > Users might not expect that?  Certain escape sequences might not
> > really be mouse-related?
>
> From observing people (often accidentally) using Emacs in my computer
> labs, they do them to expect that.  Clicking to move the point is
> something that people appear to do very intuitively, and the TUI menus
> hint toward mouse-usage as well.
>
> > I've added Jared to this discussion.

As long as we can defer actually sending the mouse tracking escape 
sequence until after init file load I think this is fine. All terminals 
I've worked with work fine with xterm-mouse-mode's defaults, but since 
there's so many different terminals I want to ensure user compatibility 
variables still work (currently just xterm-mouse-utf-8, I expect to 
create a new one for bug #73469).

Also, I expect this would only be done when the envvar TERM indicates 
the user is on an xterm-compatible terminal.

  -- MJF