Re: Proposal to change behavior of "pause mouse key"

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> As I recall, Petr was the one who wanted "pause mouse key" to
> terminate on either mouse click or keystroke.  Is that still
> true?  Would it be OK to make this a separate option?

Yes, that's true -- I've just noticed that

2005-03-26
        * src/mouse.c (event_buttonpress) term/x11.trm (X11_waitforinput):
        Do not terminate "pause mouse key" on mouse button clicks. This allows
        zoom, select, and other mouse-click operations during the pause.

broke my app where it expects "pause mouse key" to terminate either on key,
or on mouse.

There is a bug:
   gnuplot> pause mouse hello
says "expecting string" but you have to recover by Ctrl/C or click.

>   pause mouse any
> 	terminates on either mouse click or keystroke (NEW)

Can you please add this variant? Thanks.


> Or maybe we should look ahead to other possible pause variants,
> and introduce new keywords, allowing multiple termination conditions:
>
>   pause mouse {key|button1|button2|...} "text prompt"
>
> Example:
>   pause mouse button1 key  "Hit any key or use left mouse button"

That could be useful too; maybe
    pause mouse button1,key
?


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