Re: mouse support in the Info reader (was: newer info reader does not allow text selection per mouse)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 15:03:43 +0100
> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: Texinfo <address@hidden>
> 
> My only thought is that the value of the "mouse" variable will be
> misleading, because the mouse events will be being captured by a
> different method to that under xterm. Perhaps we could have an extra
> value for this variable which it would default to under MS-Windows. I
> don't care much about this though, so don't worry if it would be too
> much effort.

Maybe I missed something: why does the exact method of capturing
matter on the user level?

I didn't plug the Windows code into mouse_event_handler because it is
deeply termcap-centric, and assumes that some bytes need to be read
for each mouse event.  It sounded excessive to me to stuff some bytes
into the input buffer, just so that they will be then interpreted as
mouse wheel events.

Or did you mean something else?