Re: mc-4.6.1-20060912.patch

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> void init_mouse (void)
> {
>    switch (use_mouse_p) {
> #ifdef HAVE_LIBGPM
>    case MOUSE_NONE:
>        use_mouse_p = MOUSE_GPM;
>        break;
> #endif /* HAVE_LIBGPM */
>    case MOUSE_XTERM_NORMAL_TRACKING:
>    case MOUSE_XTERM_BUTTON_EVENT_TRACKING:
>        define_sequence (MCKEY_MOUSE, xmouse_seq, MCKEY_NOACTION);
>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>        break;
>    default:
>        break;
>    }
>    enable_mouse ();
> }

To clarify:

The define_sequence() call above arranges MCKEY_MOUSE to be returned from 
get_key_code() when the escape sequence "xmose_seq" is encountered in the 
input stream.