From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Defining HAVE_MOUSE on Cygwin Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 21:47:29 +0200 Message-ID: <834nm65ajy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5070E131.6020402@cornell.edu> <83zk3y6aox.fsf@gnu.org> <50717310.1030906@cornell.edu> <83k3v25pwa.fsf@gnu.org> <83d30u5mua.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349639262 26954 80.91.229.3 (7 Oct 2012 19:47:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 19:47:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kbrown@cornell.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 07 21:47:48 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TKwpI-0002MV-I8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 21:47:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41428 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKwpC-00049Q-LY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 15:47:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47632) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKwpA-00049L-Ew for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 15:47:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKwp9-0000zo-C8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 15:47:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:39398) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKwp9-0000zg-3X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 15:47:39 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MBJ00M00G7OZY00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 21:47:37 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MBJ00M75GBDV750@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 21:47:37 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154204 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 15:38:24 -0400 > Cc: kbrown@cornell.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >> > But if that works, my fears notwithstanding, why confine this to > >> > Cygwin? If we believe that emacs-nox will always run on a > >> > mouse-capable terminal, let's turn on HAVE_MOUSE in all Posix builds. > >> Actually, I can't see why we have HAVE_MOUSE at all nowadays. > > Perhaps someone should try compiling a -nox configuration with > > HAVE_MOUSE defined and without GPM, and see if it works well on a text > > terminal on Unix or GNU/Linux (a _real_ text terminal, not xterm). > > I'm not claiming it works. I'm claiming that there's no good reason why > it shouldn't work, so if it doesn't work it's a bug. We should remove > HAVE_MOUSE and fix any breakage that might ensue (but since Emacs works > fine under xterm with xterm-mouse-mode disabled, I don't expect too > much breakage at least under GNU/Linux). If no one beats me to it, I will try that in a GNU/Linux TTY session one of these days.