Emacs and moused

Emacs and moused

[Peter Wu]

I'm just curious to know whether one can use mouse to tell Emacs to do
something in the command line UI. I don't mean in the X.

Is this possible? 

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Re: Emacs and moused

[Kai Großjohann]

Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com> writes:

> I'm just curious to know whether one can use mouse to tell Emacs to do
> something in the command line UI. I don't mean in the X.
>
> Is this possible? 

Try M-x xterm-mouse-mode RET.  Does it work?
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Re: Emacs and moused

[Peter Wu]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> I'm just curious to know whether one can use mouse to tell Emacs to do
>> something in the command line UI. I don't mean in the X.
>>
>> Is this possible? 
>
> Try M-x xterm-mouse-mode RET.  Does it work?

I don't think it is what I am thinking of. After load that mode, I don't
see any difference.

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Re: Emacs and moused

[Kai Großjohann]

Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I'm just curious to know whether one can use mouse to tell Emacs to do
>>> something in the command line UI. I don't mean in the X.
>>>
>>> Is this possible? 
>>
>> Try M-x xterm-mouse-mode RET.  Does it work?
>
> I don't think it is what I am thinking of. After load that mode, I don't
> see any difference.

Well.  Have you clicked the mouse somewhere?  It should position the
cursor where you clicked.  And button-down, then drag, then button-up
should highlight the region you dragged over.

Does this happen?

(You didn't say what you expected, so...)
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Re: Emacs and moused

[Peter Wu]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>>
>>> Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I'm just curious to know whether one can use mouse to tell Emacs to do
>>>> something in the command line UI. I don't mean in the X.
>>>>
>>>> Is this possible? 
>>>
>>> Try M-x xterm-mouse-mode RET.  Does it work?
>>
>> I don't think it is what I am thinking of. After load that mode, I don't
>> see any difference.
>
> Well.  Have you clicked the mouse somewhere?  It should position the
> cursor where you clicked.  And button-down, then drag, then button-up
> should highlight the region you dragged over.
>
> Does this happen?

Ah yes, this does happen.

> (You didn't say what you expected, so...)

Sorry for that. I meant to know whether one can use mouse to click on the
menu bar to invoke the menus like in X window.

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Re: Emacs and moused

[Kai Großjohann]

Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com> writes:

> Sorry for that. I meant to know whether one can use mouse to click on the
> menu bar to invoke the menus like in X window.

This does not work.  But many people would be happy if you
implemented it :-)

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Re: Emacs and moused

[John Paul Wallington]

Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com> wrote:

>>>>> I'm just curious to know whether one can use mouse to tell Emacs to do
>>>>> something in the command line UI. I don't mean in the X.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this possible? 
>>>>
>>>> Try M-x xterm-mouse-mode RET.  Does it work?
>>>
>>> I don't think it is what I am thinking of. After load that mode, I don't
>>> see any difference.
>>
>> Well.  Have you clicked the mouse somewhere?  It should position the
>> cursor where you clicked.  And button-down, then drag, then button-up
>> should highlight the region you dragged over.
>>
>> Does this happen?
>
> Ah yes, this does happen.

But is it a consequence of `xterm-mouse-mode'?  Does FreeBSD moused
support the xterm mouse protocol, or is it the case that moused acts
like gpm under GNU/Linux, providing generic support for tty programs?

There is the t-mouse emacs lisp library which supports gpm/mev and
allows `mouse-set-point' etc. - I don't think there is a similar
library for moused.

>> (You didn't say what you expected, so...)
>
> Sorry for that. I meant to know whether one can use mouse to click on the
> menu bar to invoke the menus like in X window.

Emacs on a tty doesn't do a drop-down menu, except for the MS-DOS
port.

Re: Emacs and moused

[Kai Großjohann]

John Paul Wallington <jpw@gnu.org> writes:

> But is it a consequence of `xterm-mouse-mode'?  Does FreeBSD moused
> support the xterm mouse protocol, or is it the case that moused acts
> like gpm under GNU/Linux, providing generic support for tty programs?

Oh, the d in moused was not a typo.  *blush*

I don't know...  I always assumed that gpm and xterm spoke the same
protocol.  But I never looked or checked...
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