Re: Wheel scrolling

[Trent W. Buck]

dae3 <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:56:27 -0800, Micah Cowan
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> See the FAQ on the Wiki (currently the top item: "How do I get screen to
>> put things into my terminal's scrollback?") for an alternative method,
>> and reasons why it may not be advisable (in particular, in combination
>> with switching from one screen to another).
>
>
> It would be really cool if gnu-screen could receive mouse wheel events
> and translate them to Command-Esc and ^Y or ^E as appropriate. Xterm can
> pass mouse events to the app running inside itself.

Screen passes mouse events (including the scroll wheel) to the app
running inside itself.  Emacs, for example, will handle them (with
appropriate junk in ~/.emacs).

Possibly it could be more intelligent about handling mouse wheel events
when *already* in copy mode (^A^[).