Re: Two little features (and a bounty?)

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Micah Cowan wrote:

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> Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> > > That's unlikely to be true. The applications on the other end of the SSH
> > > tunnel requested the click events, first (based on the TERM env var
> > > having something like "xterm" in it: they check for that value
> > > explicitly, but usually don't recognize "screen" as a mouse-capable term
> > > name). Try running your ssh session under script, and check for the
> > > \E1001h, etc, sequences, in the resulting typescript.
> >
> > This is wrong.  Setting the $TERM to "xterm" within screen does not
> > cause nano -m to work for me.
>
> It does for me, over your provided ssh access. I'll provide the full
> details when I'm done exploring.

Wait, where are you running screen?  My assumption was that you be running 
it ON prime.gushi.org, not before you ssh in.

When I ssh from my mac to prime, nano -m works.

When I ssh from my mac to prime and start screen -q, nano -m doesn't.

I haven't tried it with screen on the LOCAL end of the SSH connection 
(kinda defeats the point of being able to detach, eh?)

-Dan

> > As far as I know, once a terminal session is negotiated, settings don't
> > change.  Screen is particularly obnoxious about intercepting and not
> > passing down the pipe things it doesn't understand.
> >
> > You're telling me that in the following chain...
> >
> > [1 local window mananger] -- [2 xterm] -- [3 ssh] -- [4 sshd] -- [5
> > shell] -- [6 application]
> >
> > That somehow #6 can tell #2 or even #1 not to send their events?  I
> > think the "local" terminal is far dumber than that.
>
> The question is whether it can tell them _to_ send their events. And
> yes, that's accurate: a program that sends the "send mouse events"
> sequence to screen will have them passed along to other terms - provided
> that screen itself detects that it is being run in a mouse-capable
> display (determined by checking for the presence of either "xterm" or
> "rxvt" in the TERM value). (This is _exactly_ why terminfo needs to be
> extended to allow advertising this feature.) That list ought to be
> expanded to include "screen" itself. I thought I remembered patching
> that once, but maybe it was a distro-specific patch that didn't make it
> upstream, or something.
>
> - --
> Micah J. Cowan
> Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer,
> and GNU Wget Project Maintainer.
> http://micah.cowan.name/
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