I don't know a lot about how mouse handling is done in console applications, but this is definitely application-specific. The latest screen from unstable (4.0.3-0.3+b1) _will_ pass mouse clicks to links/elinks in gnome-terminal. It will not, however, pass mouse clicks to vim. For example, try opening a buffer in vim, and then entering :tabe some_new_file in command mode. This will bring up a small tab at the top of the terminal showing all of the vim tabs open. Outside of a screen environment, it is possible to click these tabs to switch buffers. Within screen, clicking the tabs produces no effects whatsoever. Likewise, it is not possible to use the mouse wheel to scroll through a text buffer in vim when vim is being run through screen.
It seems to me that there must be (at least) two separate ways to do mouse events in a terminal, and screen is only handling one of them correctly. I think we need a console programming guru to come in and explain what is going on, and hopefully submit a patch so that screen can handle the broken cases correctly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
