Re: mc-4.6.1-20060912.patch

[Thomas Dickey <dickey his com>]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> >
> > > > configure --prefix=/tmp/FOO --without-gpm-mouse --with-screen=ncurses
> > >
> > > I've configured as you suggested above. The system is  FC5 with some 
> > > missing updates and MC comes from the latest snapshot tarball. I've
> > > stopped gpm so that it won't interfere.
> > ...
> > > Mouse support does work - both buttons and the mouse wheel.
> >
> > I'll check on this when I'm home this evening (have an FC5, just in case 
> > that is relevant, e.g., for locale).
>
> Ok. I am pretty much willing to work with you to improve MC's ncurses support 
> not only regarding mouse support but in general. But I just cannot accept 
> bugreports without proof. I am sure that you see some kind of a
> problem - just let me know how to reproduce it.

I understand that.  At the moment I see that you are apparently having MC 
interpret escape sequences (since I do not see a mechanism for it reading 
the KEY_MOUSE data that ncurses would send if mousemask() were called).
That is not happening on my machine, but it is a starting point.

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