From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using gpm in emacs
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:20:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5wtvjvrxm.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16831.34776.189931.303836@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:39:52 +1300")
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
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-15 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-15 0:39 Using gpm in emacs Nick Roberts
2004-12-15 9:20 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2004-12-15 9:36 ` Stephan Stahl
2004-12-15 9:54 ` David Kastrup
2004-12-15 10:12 ` Stephan Stahl
2004-12-15 10:46 ` Nick Roberts
2004-12-15 11:24 ` Stephan Stahl
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