Re: Enabling Xterm-Mouse-Mode

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 22:22:06 -0800
>> From: Jared Finder <jared@finder.org>
>> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, Emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> 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.
>
> Thanks, installed on the master branch.

I am not sure if something else is broken on master, or if I made a
mistake, but the patch doesn't appear to have any effect?