Re: Enabling Xterm-Mouse-Mode

[Jared Finder]

On 2024-12-08 08:35, Jared Finder wrote:
> 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.

Relying on term/xterm.el being loaded made the patch very 
straightforward because it gets loaded after user init files.  Patch 
attached.

  -- MJF

0001-Enable-xterm-mouse-mode-by-default-in-xterm.patch
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