Re: Enabling Xterm-Mouse-Mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.