Re: Question about triggering KEY_MOUSE

[Timothy Allen]

On Wed, 2019-01-02 at 09:54 -0600, Bryan Christ wrote:
> If xfce is really vte masquerading as xterm (via TERM) and the
> vanilla terminfo entry for xterm doesn't have XM
> defined, how does ncurses know that it can do some mode better than
> X10?

Looking at init_xterm_mouse() in the ncurses source code[1], it works
like this:

- if the terminfo entry has an XM string, ncurses parses it to extract
the mouse mode
- otherwise, if the terminfo entry has an XM integer, ncurses assumes
it's the mouse mode (unknown values are mapped to 1000)
- otherwise, ncurses just assumes mode 1000.

[1]: 
https://github.com/ThomasDickey/ncurses-snapshots/blob/master/ncurses/base/lib_mouse.c#L376