> I'm not sure what should be done for customize though. Luc? > > I could handle that. However, I really start to doubt that enabling > xterm-mouse-mode by default in all terminals for which we believe it > makes sense is a good idea. As we have seen, Xterm Mouse mode has a > very imperfect and unpredictable implementation.
Well it may imperfect but its certainly predictable, once you've used it a few times. > It is basically impossible to know whether a given type of mouse click is > going to be handled by Emacs or by the terminal without trying it out first > (or very carefully studying the code first). That is why the Emacs manual > would have to tell people who get frustrated by all of this > unpredictability how to disable the mode. I think you exaggerate the frustration it will cause. The user can quickly find its limits. > Also the heuristic we use to decide when to enable xterm-mouse-mode might > miss some terminal types for which it works. People using these terminals > would still have to know which function or variable to use to enable it > themselves. That heuristic is aready used in startup.el so it must be pretty good. If there are cases that aren't covered, hopefully they'll come up in the pretest. > I would say, let us keep the mode disabled by default. If we want to > go through with enabling it by default, I will take care of the Custom > problems. I say let's enable it by default, I think Richard has already decided this. Single mouse clicks work on the modeline and eleswhere now. I certainly think most users would use it by preference. Nick _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
