Re: Two little features (and a bounty?)

[Micah Cowan]

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Trent W. Buck wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:36:02PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> Please clarify: what are the semantics when using screen -x, say with
> one TERM=xterm and one TERM=linux ?

The one with TERM=xterm will get the mouse-enable sequence passed
through to it (assuming it was attached at the time that sequence was
sent); the TERM=linux one won't.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer,
and GNU Wget Project Maintainer.
http://micah.cowan.name/
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