Re: Mouse support does not work

[Aaron Meurer]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> > Wrt keystroke echoing, you can use `echo-keystrokes', as I
>> > mentioned. You also have `C-h l', to see the last 100 keystrokes.
>>
>> echo-keystrokes only seems to work within some lisp code, which I
>> unfortunately am not good enough with yet to do anything useful.
>
> I think it works always, but it is true that some commands etc. might bind it 
> to
> 0 so it has no effect in some context.

Maybe I'm missing something then.  M-x echo-keystrokes doesn't work.
How would one run this (without incorporating it into some lisp code)?
 Sorry if this sounds stupid, but I'm still very new to both emacs and
emacs lisp.

>
>> C-h l doesn't seem to show mouse events.
>
> It does for me:
>
> ... SPC <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-c C-c y e s <return>
> <help-echo> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <down-mouse-1>
> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-3>
> <mouse-3> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <double-down-mouse-1>
> <double-mouse-1> <down-mouse-3> <mouse-3> C-h l
>
> And it works whether I use a graphic display or `emacs -nw'.
>

Actually, I think maybe it does for me too. But it shows it in the
form of garbage that I don't know how to read:

ESC [ > 0 ; 9 5 ; c ESC x e c TAB DEL DEL ESC [ M a
] E ESC [ M a ] E ESC [ M a ] E ESC [ M a ] E ESC [
M a ] E ESC [ M ` ] E ESC [ M ` ] E ESC [ M ` ] E ESC
[ M ` ] E C-h C-g C-h C-h l ESC [ M a ] E ESC [ M a
] E ESC [ M a ] E ESC [ M ` ] E ESC [ M ` ] E ESC [
M ` ] E ESC [ M ` ] E ESC [ M SPC \300\262 , ESC [
M # \300\262 , ESC [ M SPC \300\243 ) ESC [ M # \300\243
) ESC [ M SPC \300\241 ' ESC [ M # \300\241 ' C-h l
ESC [ M a \300\236 & C-h l

Aaron Meurer