Re: Using gpm in emacs

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> writes:

> Following the earlier discussion on emacs-pretest-bug about mouse
> support for Emacs in a text-only terminal, I contacted the main
> author of gpm/mev (Alessandro Rubini). He thought that including gpm
> in Emacs might not be the right thing to do and that it would be
> best to connect to the gpm socket and use its own protocol. He
> pointed out that gpm is specific to the Linux kernel and many users
> already have it installed and configured by their distribution.  I
> guess thats similar to X, where, I presume, the mouse movements are
> communicated to the application by the X server, the difference
> being that X is ported more widely.
>
> So I propose to tinker with the gpm library and try to connect
> things up with Emacs (presumbly with pointers like
> mouse_position_hook?). Clearly, if anybody who knows what they are
> doing is interested, that would be a better bet.

;;; gpm.el --- Support the mouse when emacs run on a Linux console.

;; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation

;; Author: William Perry <wmperry@gnu.org>
;; Keywords: mouse, terminals

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