Re: Best way to intercept terminal escape sequences?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:44:12 +0200
> From: Ryan Johnson <address@hidden>
> 
> Is there really no other way to do this?

You could use the :post-read-conversion attribute of a coding-system.
That is, define a new coding-system that has this attribute specifying
a function you will write.  That function will first decode the mouse
stuff, and then decode the rest by the terminal-coding-system set by
the user.

You can see an example of this in ctext-with-extensions.  It is
defined on mule-conf.el and its post-read-conversion function is
defined on mule.el.

Other than that, it's no surprise that this is not easy: we ask Emacs
to read keyboard input that is encoded in two different encodings,
which is not how keyboard input was designed.

I think the only way that is easier and cleaner would be if Emacs
could read the mouse input from a separate file descriptor.  We could
then set that file descriptor to use a different encoding.  Of course,
that would need low-level changes in Emacs, even if it is possible in
xterm.