Re: LYNX-DEV Andrew's patch for XTerm mouse compatibility

[Bela Lubkin]

Hiram Lester wrote:

> I was just wondering about the possibility of including this patch in the
> standard distribution and turning it off by default.  The only thing I
> wasn't sure about was it's dependence upon ncurses.  Pine has a similar
> option, but I don't think it depends on ncurses.  Does anyone have
> opinions about this?  BTW, Pine has the same problem with cut and paste
> and mentions it in the documentation.  Maybe Andrew could look at Pine and
> improve his patch to not rely on ncurses...

I haven't tried the xterm mouse patch (have been meaning to).  I know
that SCO's curses supports xterm mouse interpretation.  I don't know
whether the nature of that support is identical to ncurses', or only
similar in spirit.

...

Ok, took a look.  "similar in spirit", at best.  Hmmm.

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