Re: Mouse interaction in -nw

[Stefan Monnier]

> I repeated the same with only xterm (to remove tmux and simplify)

Good idea.

> And loosage shows:
>
>  ESC x                         ;; execute-extended-command
>  x                     ;; self-insert-command
>  t                     ;; self-insert-command
>  e                     ;; self-insert-command
>  TAB                   ;; minibuffer-complete
>  m                     ;; self-insert-command
>  o                     ;; self-insert-command
>  TAB                   ;; minibuffer-complete
>  RET                   ;; minibuffer-complete-and-exit
>  ESC [ < 0 ; 2 3 ; 2 M         ;; mouse-drag-region
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 2 4 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 2 5 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 2 6 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 2 7 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 2 8 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 2 9 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 3 0 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 3 1 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 3 2 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 3 3 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 3 4 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 3 5 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 3 6 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 3 7 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 3 8 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 3 9 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 4 0 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 4 1 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 4 2 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 4 3 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 4 4 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC [ < 3 2 ; 4 5 ; 2 M ;; anonymous-command
>  ESC w                         ;; kill-ring-save
>  C-h l                         ;; view-lossage

This looks right except for a missing

     ESC [ < 0 ; 4 5 ; 2 m   ;; anonymous-command
     <drag-mouse-1>          ;; mouse-set-region

just before the `ESC w`.  IOW it looks like you get the mouse-down and
mouse-motion events but for some reason Emacs didn't get the mouse-up
event (encoded as `ESC ... m`), which is the one that actually sets
the region.

I don't know why that would happen.  I'd assume it's something to do
with the `xterm` executable or its configuration, but as for
what... I recommend you try it with some other terminal emulator and
also that you try it with a different xterm config, just to try and
narrow down the scope of the problem.


        Stefan