Re: Enabling Xterm-Mouse-Mode

[Philip Kaludercic]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> 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?

No, it was my mistake.  It all works as intended, thanks Jared!