From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
Cc: jdtsmith@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: xterm-mouse-mode gives incorrect posn-object-x-y with display space
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 21:14:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y1rxr0j1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fse5pmt5.fsf@disroot.org> (message from Akib Azmain Turja on Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:56:06 +0600)
> From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
> Cc: JD Smith <jdtsmith@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:56:06 +0600
>
> > Why challenging? On TTY frames, align-to always aligns to some character
> > position, and the mouse clicks are reported in terms of character positions
> > as well. Why do you even need the fine details of the POSITION part of the
> > mouse-click events on TTY frames?
>
> They (probably a grammatical mistake) are the maintainer of the mlscroll
> package, that implement scroll bar in mode line, but using specified
> space. That's why they need the click position *precisely*.
You are missing my point: on TTY frames "precisely" means at character
position granularity. There's no resolution below that, so accounting for
the number of glyphs in the stretch of whitespace should not present a
problem. Unless I'm missing something.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-26 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-24 17:22 xterm-mouse-mode gives incorrect posn-object-x-y with display space JD Smith
2022-11-24 18:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-24 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-24 21:42 ` JD Smith
2022-11-25 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-25 15:15 ` JD Smith
2022-11-26 12:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-26 18:56 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-11-26 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-11-27 1:14 ` JD Smith
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