Mouse-support with "exec" filters

[Micah Cowan]

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Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:07:20PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote:
> [...]
>> Of course, if you'd like to hurry up the process, feel free to submit
>> patches against the bugs that are left, so we can finish it up. :)
> [...]
> 
> Hi Micah,
> 
> it's nice to see activity going on on screen again! Thanks for
> the effort!
> 
> I've had a look at a bug report with patch that I had submitted
> some time ago: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?11021
> The state says "needs discussion". I'm happy to discuss. Is
> there any objection to the fix I'm suggesting? The only
> comment on that bug, is about saying that "mouse is
> already supported" which is not relevant to the issue.

I think the discussion I wished to have, was whether there was agreement
that in all cases we would wish the mouse sequences to go to the filter,
rather than the application. I would think that in many cases, one would
 wish the reverse (say if the application is vim, and the filter doesn't
get mouse sequences).

In order to be done right, it might be necessary for screen to determine
which tty the mouse-tracking sequence was sent on (app's or filter's).

OTOH, a case might be made that none of this applies when the filter
spec has "." as the first character. I'm not confident enough in my
knowledge/experience with filters to make such a judgment, which is why
I wanted to discuss it. :)

BTW, you might want to add yourself to that bug's Cc list (if you lack
an account, you should still be able to add yourself, by filling in a
captcha).

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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