newer 'info' does not accept midclick, nor can one select text

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hi,

With info 6.0 one cannot midclick something into the search
prompt any more.  Nor can one select text by dragging the
mouse.  Both things work fine in 4.13.

(Of course one can hold down Shift and then midclicking and
selecting text will work, but most users will not know this,
nor will they find this in the manual; they will be perplexed
and annoyed by not being able to paste and select.)

Now, if this pointer mode was somehow useful, if one could do
something with the mouse, then I could understand why things
are this way.  But one cannot click on a reference link in order
to follow it, nor can one place the cursor anywhere by clicking.
The mouse is completely impotent.  (I don't actually have a
mouse, just a touchpad, so no scrollwheel.)

But even if the mouse could be used to follow links, I don't
think this should be the default mode for 'info' -- it should
require an (init-file) option to select this mode.  Most users
will not expect to be able to use the scrollwheel within a
terminal program, so they won't even try.

Benno

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