Re: [Mingw-users] Mouse cursor in full-screen mode when running make under cmd.exe

[Eli Z. <el...@gn...>]

> From: Kevin Scott <ks...@ez...>
> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 21:17:13 -0400
> 
> On 19-Sep-2013, at 10:13:47 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <el...@gn...> wrote:
> 
> > What does "make --version" (or maybe it's "mingw32-make --version"
> > in your case) say, and where did you get the binary?
> 
> I've actually installed MinGW twice, and have had the same
> behavior from both of them.  Both times, I got the download
> (at least the initial mingw-get portion) from
>     http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/
> 
> Since my previous posting, I noticed that the mouse cursor
> on the full-screen text display also occurs while "less"
> is running.  In both make and less, you can move the cursor
> around with the mouse, but clicking it doesn't do anything.

I'm guessing that in full-screen mode of the Command Prompt window,
Windows turns on the text-mode mouse cursor for any program that uses
the Windows console APIs, directly or indirectly.  E.g., Less uses
those APIs to clear the console window and display colorized text.

I never use the full-screen mode of the command prompt, and I don't
know how to turn off the text-mode mouse, if at all possible.  Perhaps
try playing with the Properties of the command prompt window, like
change the font or enable/disable the Quick Edit mode.

This page:

  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/96706

seems to indicate that you can disable the mouse on MS-DOS by editing
a dosshell.ini file; perhaps the same will work on Windows 98.

Sorry, I don't know much more about this.