LYNX-DEV More on the mouse

[Michael Ritzert]

Larry W. Virden, x2487 writes:
 > Okay, thanks to the efforts of those on this list, I was able to pick up
 > the patches to bring me up to lynx 2.7.1ac-0.113 .  I compiled for
 > my SPARC/ Solaris 2.5.1 using Sun's 4.2 cc.  I am using the xterm from
 > Solaris 2.5.1.  I am using ncurses 4.1/patch Jan 31, 1998.
 > 
 > I am using this terminfo - which defines kmous.
 > 
 > The lynx.cfg that lynx is loading has a USE_MOUSE: TRUE in it.
 > 
 > #    Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /home/lwv26/.ti/x/xterm
 > xterm|vs100|xterms|xterm terminal emulator (X Window System),
 >      acsc=``aaffggjjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~..--++\,\,ii00,
 >      am,
 >      bel=^G,
 >      blink=@,
 >      bold=\E[1m,
 >      clear=\E[H\E[2J,
 >      cols#80,
 >      cr=\r,
 >      csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr,
 >      cub1=\b,
 >      cub=\E[%p1%dD,
 >      cud1=\n,
 > 
 > When using the 3 button mouse on my SPARC I press the left button,
 > nothing happens.  If I press the middle button, lynx behaves as if I
 > had pasted text. 
 > 
 > Now, if I start lynx with a -use_mouse, the mouse seems to work.
 > 
 > Is there something else I need to do so that I don't need to specify
 > -use_mouse on the command line?

This is the presently normal behaviour. Running lynx with the mouse
does not seem to affect its usability without the mouse. So i suggest
to change the code that lynx tries to detect if the terminal supported
a mouse and silently enables it if this is true.

Michael
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