Re: documentation about copy&paste from info display

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 03:01:03 +0200
> 
> Occasionally I need to copy&paste the rendered output of a GNU manual
> into a text file or mail. The easiest way to do this is to use the
> 'info' reader with TERM=vt100 or TERM=vt220. With the usual TERM=xterm
> setting it does *not* work because info then intercepts the mouse events.
> 
> Could this trick please be documented in the info manual?

Doesn't xterm offer a way of invoking the selection by mouse through
its menus, i.e. not by clicking on the text area of the xterm window?

> Or maybe even add an option --no-mouse (like w3m has an option '-no-mouse');
> then a user would see this possibility simply from 'info --help'.

You can already do "M-x set-variable RET mouse RET Off RET".  The
Info-stnd manual also says, under the description of the 'mouse'
variable:

     On terminal emulators running under the X Window System, such as
     'xterm', you can usually select text with the mouse.  However,
     mouse tracking mode may interfere with this.  When this happens,
     you may be able to select text by holding down the 'Shift' key
     while clicking and dragging.

Does that advice work for you?