bug#21211: 24.4; Possible regression in xterm mouse handling with PuTTY client

[Stefan Kangas]

Neil Baylis <neil.baylis@gmail.com> writes:

> I think I'm seeing a slight regression in the behavior of the mouse wheel 
> with xterm-mouse-mode. This is when running in -nw mode, using
> Windows PuTTY as a client, with ssh into a linux box where the emacs runs. 
> I've verified that it's nothing in my init.el or site-lisp files. I've
> verified that the bad behavior described below does not happen when running 
> on the same host with a real xterm.
>
> The problem seems to have begun with emacs 24.4. I verified with fresh builds 
> from source that it works with 24.3, but not with 24.4 or
> 24.5.
>
> The problem:
>
>  When I scroll using the mouse wheel, the buffer scrolls as before, but 
> there's also a screen flash, and a complaint in the mini buffer: "M-[
> m" is undefined". It seems that emacs is seeing this escape sequence after 
> each movement of the mouse wheel. I have PuTTY set to
> report xterm mouse events, and I have xterm-mouse-mode turned on in emacs.

(That was 6 years ago.)

Are you still seeing this issue on a recent version of Emacs, such as
27.1?

> I can work around this by adding a global-set-key to recognize the escape 
> sequence and ignore it. As yet, I don't know if my workaround
> breaks anything else. The escape sequence means "Turn off all special 
> character attributes, e.g., blinking, bold, etc.". Here's the
> workaround I'm using:
>
> (global-set-key (kbd "\e [ m") (lambda () (interactive) nil))
>
> Here is the lossage output under various combinations of emacs version and 
> client. I notice that with 24.4 the character \230 is displayed
> differently than in 24.3, don't know if that relates to the problem. These 
> are all started as emacs -q -nw. After emacs starts up, I enable
> xterm-mouse-mode, and then do a single scroll down with the mouse wheel:
>
> This is emacs 24.3 with the PuTTY client. The bad behavior is not seen in 
> this case.
>
>
>
> ESC [ > 0 ; 1 3 6 ; 0 c ESC x x t e r m - m o u s e
>
> - m o d e RET ESC [ M a \230 % ESC [ M # \230 % C-h
>
> l
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> This is emacs 24.3 with the genuine xterm client. The bad behavior is not 
> seen in this case.
>
>
>
> ESC [ > 0 ; 2 7 8 ; 0 c ESC ] 1 1 ; r g b : 0 0 0 0
>
> / 0 0 0 0 / 0 0 0 0 ESC \ ESC x x t e r m - m o u s
>
> e - m o d e RET ESC [ < 6 5 ; 5 0 ; 1 3 M C-h l
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> This is emacs 24.4 with the PuTTY client. The bad behavior is seen in this 
> case.
>
>
>
> ESC [ > 0 ; 1 3 6 ; 0 c ESC x x t e r m - m o u s e
>
> - m o d e RET ESC [ M a  K ESC [ M #  K C-h
>
> l
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> This is emacs 24.4 with the genuine xterm client. The bad behavior is not 
> seen in this case.
>
>
>
> ESC [ > 0 ; 2 7 8 ; 0 c ESC ] 1 1 ; r g b : 0 0 0 0
>
> / 0 0 0 0 / 0 0 0 0 ESC \ ESC x x t e r m - m o u s
>
> e - m o d e RET ESC [ < 6 5 ; 9 6 ; 4 2 M C-h l$
>
> Pasted below is the output from M-x report-emacs-bug on the failing version. 
> I have also tried emacs 24.5 and found the same bad
> behavior with the PuTTY client.
>
> In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
>
> of 2015-07-30 on moes
>
> System Description:     Debian GNU/Linux 7.7 (wheezy)
>
>
>
> Configured using:
>
> `configure --with-xpm=no --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no'
>
>
>
> Important settings:
>
>   value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
>
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
>
>
>
> Major mode: Fundamental
>
>
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>
>   tooltip-mode: t
>
>   electric-indent-mode: t
>
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>
>   buffer-read-only: t
>
>   line-number-mode: t
>
>   transient-mark-mode: t
>
>
>
> Recent input:
>
> ESC [ > 0 ; 1 3 6 ; 0 c ESC x r e p o r t - e m a c
>
> s - b u g RET
>
>
>
> Recent messages:
>
> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
>
>
>
> Load-path shadows:
>
> None found.
>
>
>
> Features:
>
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>
> easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231
>
> mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums
>
> mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils xterm time-date tooltip electric
>
> uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar
>
> dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode
>
> prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar
>
> mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian
>
> utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean
>
> japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian
>
> cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev
>
> minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files
>
> text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule
>
> custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process
>
> dbusbind gfilenotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting
>
> font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)
>
>
>
> Memory information:
>
> ((conses 16 77501 7411)
>
> (symbols 48 17540 0)
>
> (miscs 40 70 113)
>
> (strings 32 9242 4336)
>
> (string-bytes 1 248382)
>
> (vectors 16 7099)
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> (vector-slots 8 341403 33128)
>
> (floats 8 65 270)
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> (intervals 56 155 0)
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> (buffers 960 12)
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> (heap 1024 7622 527))