On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:42:25AM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote:
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> Trent W. Buck wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:36:02PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote:
> >> The question is whether it can tell them _to_ send their events. And
> >> yes, that's accurate: a program that sends the "send mouse events"
> >> sequence to screen will have them passed along to other terms -
> >> provided that screen itself detects that it is being run in a
> >> mouse-capable display (determined by checking for the presence of
> >> either "xterm" or "rxvt" in the TERM value).
> >
> > Please clarify: what are the semantics when using screen -x, say with
> > one TERM=xterm and one TERM=linux ?
>
> The one with TERM=xterm will get the mouse-enable sequence passed
> through to it (assuming it was attached at the time that sequence was
> sent); the TERM=linux one won't.
Would it be better to have screen "remember" if an enable sequence was
sent, so that if I *later* do
xterm -e screen -xRR
the *new* xterm will also know about mousiness? (IIUC, currently the
xterm has to be connected when you do M-x xterm-mouse-mode.)
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