Re: Enabling Xterm-Mouse-Mode

[Jared Finder]

On 2024-12-07 22:07, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2024 16:37:46 -0800
> > From: Jared Finder <jared@finder.org>
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > 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).
>
> So this would require some changes in the code, to make sure the
> escape sequences are delayed?

Yes, some changes, though they are straightforward.

> > Also, I expect this would only be done when the envvar TERM indicates
> > the user is on an xterm-compatible terminal.
>
> How do we know which ones are compatible?

If Emacs decided to load term/xterm.el then the terminal advertised 
itself as xterm compatible and I think we could enable xterm-mouse-mode. 
There's no termcap entry for mouse support, sadly.

  -- MJF