Re: [multi-tty] xt-mouse.el does not work in emacsclient frames

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Actually, I don't think that would be right either: when calling
>> xterm-mouse-mode, the user implicitly tells Emacs "trust me, this is
>> a terminal that understands the xterm-mouse protocol".

> Hm.  Could we have something that says "try this with every (including
> as to yet unopened) terminal that you know/can test to understand the
> protocol"?

We can probably try to have a "global-xterm-mouse-mode" which automatically
sets up xterm-mouse-mode on every terminal whose TERM names matches
a particular regexp.

Same thing for t-mouse-mode. 

And/or maybe we could check the TTY name itself (after all a /dev/ttyN is
known not to be an xterm).


        Stefan