Re: Why have you disable mouse on TTY builds?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 10:58:48 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0@libero.it>
> 
> 
> 
> Il 05/01/2025 08:32, Eli Zaretskii ha scritto:
> >> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 01:02:10 +0100
> >> From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0@libero.it>
> >>
> >> Few weeks ago I built Emacs master for TTY om MSYS2 and without any
> >> settings in the init.el file Emacs and mouse worked on Windows Terminal.
> >> Few minutes ago I did another TTY build and mouse stopped to work. I had
> >> to read this
> >>
> >>     (require 'mouse)
> >>     (require 'mwheel)
> >>     (unless window-system
> >>     (xterm-mouse-mode t)
> >>     (mouse-wheel-mode t))
> >>
> >> to the init.el..
> >>
> >> WHY?
> > 
> > Which revision did you build?  There were some changes lately
> > regarding xterm-mouse turned on by default, which could have affected
> > that, so it is important to know whether you build before or after
> > those changes.
> 
> I built Emacs master after the mouse support was enable by default for 
> TTY then have built Emacs master yesterday after the mouse support for 
> TTY was disabled for a few terminals.
> 
> In Windows Terminal the mouse support worked.

Can you tell more about the terminal you are using?  How do you start
this terminal, and what program does it run?

Also, does it set TERM to some value, and if so, to which value?

> The real world is more complicated than the ideal world some
> programmer has in mind.

This is an unkind and unfair comment.  We are trying to do our best,
but the number of terminals we know about is always finite, so there's
always some terminal we didn't know about.

Jared, can you please look into this?