Re: Defining HAVE_MOUSE on Cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> 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.