Re: [Abook-devel] mouse support follow-up

[Fabio Z. <fab...@fa...>]

I would be in favour of this (if it is supported). It is not so
different from clipboard support in linux in many terminals:

- highlighting copies to CLIPBOARD
- SHIFT+highlight copies to PRIMARY

and I've been benefitting of such a swich in vim for years.
Only my 2 cents.

Cheers,
Fabio

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 02:41:34PM +0100, Raphaël wrote:
> I took some time to think a bit more about mouse support.
> 
> The current implementation is an on/off switch.
> If on, it inhibits default mouse behavior: text selection (X and gpm)
> Moreover there have been discussion about wheel support because this is
> a feature which can be enabled in X for most virtual terminals.
> (makes wheel up emulate arrow-up key press)
> But abook/ncurses's wheel handling is a very useful in the context of
> the linux console [from a very quick look, gpm does not natively handle
> wheel events]
> 
> So let me expose the idea: `set use_mouse=<key-modifier>`
> 
> If key-modifier is a valid key modifier, then mouse events are treated by
> abook as long as they are combined with the key-modifier.
> 
> To be honnest I don't know if ncurses supports that, but this was the
> only option I could come up to grab the best of both worlds without
> having the switch abookrc mouse support on/off according to circumstances.
> 
> I don't know if Thorsten could be interested in this change and if not I
> could give a try myself, but I felt it would be better to gather
> opinions first.
> 
> 
> 
> regards
> 
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