Re: documentation about copy&paste from info display

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 13:20:46 +0200
> Cc: Texinfo <address@hidden>
> 
> Hi Gavin,
> 
> Thanks for having turned off the mouse mode by default in 6.1.
> The new default mode fits well with all possible habits:
> scroll through cursor key movements, scroll through mouse whell,
> AND allow marking a region with mouse-left.
> 
> Thanks also for having documented the trick with Shift-mouse-left.
> 
> > The manual notes the following work-around if the feature is turned on:
> > 
> > 'mouse'
> >      What method to use to get input from a mouse device.  The default
> >      value is 'Off'.  Set this variable to 'normal-tracking' to make
> >      Info use "normal tracking mode" if it detects that the terminal
> >      supports it.
> 
> In version 6.0, in KDE konsole with TERM=xterm, when I try the recipe
> mentioned by Eli
> 
>      You can already do "M-x set-variable RET mouse RET Off RET".
> 
> it has no effect: Even after this operation, the mouse wheel scrolls
> and the mouse-left key doesn't mark a region.
> 
> Similarly, in version 6.3 with TERM=xterm, in KDE konsole, when I try
> 
>      M-x set-variable RET mouse RET normal-tracking RET
> 
> it has no effect: Even after this operation, the mouse wheel scrolls.

In both versions you mentioned, the effect of setting the 'mouse'
variable is as documented: when set to Off, the mouse wheel has no
effect, when set to 'normal-tracking', the wheel scrolls.

So I'm unsure why that doesn't work for you.