Re: xterm-mouse-mode gives incorrect posn-object-x-y with display space

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
> Cc: JD Smith <jdtsmith@gmail.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:56:06 +0600
> 
> > Why challenging?  On TTY frames, align-to always aligns to some character
> > position, and the mouse clicks are reported in terms of character positions
> > as well.  Why do you even need the fine details of the POSITION part of the
> > mouse-click events on TTY frames?
> 
> They (probably a grammatical mistake) are the maintainer of the mlscroll
> package, that implement scroll bar in mode line, but using specified
> space.  That's why they need the click position *precisely*.

You are missing my point: on TTY frames "precisely" means at character
position granularity.  There's no resolution below that, so accounting for
the number of glyphs in the stretch of whitespace should not present a
problem.  Unless I'm missing something.