Re: Wheel scrolling

[dae3]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:14:48 +1100, Trent W. Buck
<address@hidden> wrote:

> dae3 <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
>> It would be really cool if gnu-screen could receive mouse wheel events
>> and translate them to Command-Esc and ^Y or ^E as appropriate. Xterm can
>> pass mouse events to the app running inside itself.
>
> Screen passes mouse events (including the scroll wheel) to the app
> running inside itself.  Emacs, for example, will handle them (with
> appropriate junk in ~/.emacs).
>
> Possibly it could be more intelligent about handling mouse wheel events
> when *already* in copy mode (^A^[).


There could be a switch for users to decide whether they want their
mouse events passed to the app or used by screen.

Personally, I have no use for the mouse in terminal-based apps. Having
screen intercept it for entering copy mode and scrolling would be ideal.


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