On 21 October 2015 at 09:06, Benno Schulenberg <bensb...@justemail.net> wrote: > With info 6.0 one cannot midclick something into the search > prompt any more. Nor can one select text by dragging the > mouse. Both things work fine in 4.13. > > (Of course one can hold down Shift and then midclicking and > selecting text will work, but most users will not know this, > nor will they find this in the manual; they will be perplexed > and annoyed by not being able to paste and select.) > > Now, if this pointer mode was somehow useful, if one could do > something with the mouse, then I could understand why things > are this way. But one cannot click on a reference link in order > to follow it, nor can one place the cursor anywhere by clicking. > The mouse is completely impotent. (I don't actually have a > mouse, just a touchpad, so no scrollwheel.) > > But even if the mouse could be used to follow links, I don't > think this should be the default mode for 'info' -- it should > require an (init-file) option to select this mode. Most users > will not expect to be able to use the scrollwheel within a > terminal program, so they won't even try.
Okay, probably better to turn it off by default, because of the text selection problem. I use a touchpad as well, but moving my finger down the right side of the touchpad does the same as a scrollwheel on a mouse, and I use this all the time. (I'm used to the same feature in vim.) I've never been interested in implementing clicking on links because I wouldn't want to use it myself. If it was implemented ideally the link under the mouse pointer would be highlighted: this would require using a different terminal mode that does mouse motion tracking.
