Micah Cowan wrote:

> > 
> >> Sorry for the repost; but I realized I should've drawn more attention > to
> >> the message with the patch in it, both so other lurkers know the threa> d
> >> now includes a proposed patch, and so that we know what message to go
> >> back to if we want to refer to the code we're discussing.
> >>
> >> I have made a slight adjustment to the patch, swapping the order of
> >> STRICMP and term_is_xterm within vim_uses_xterm_mouse(). I was using
> >> vim_is_xterm() instead of term_is_xterm at first, but afterwards
> >> replaced it for efficiency, but left the order as it was.
> > 
> > Looks OK to me.
> 
> Terrific! Does that mean it'll go in? :)

Probably, but not right now.

> > If I understood your other message correctly then using "xterm2" for
> > 'ttymouse' would not work for screen.
> 
> Well... manually setting it to "xterm2" will work fine (assuming screen
> is running under a supporting version of xterm): I get the full dragging
> effect, etc. But screen doesn't do t_RV, and I don't know how else you'd
> determine support for "xterm2", so there doesn't seem to be a safe way
> to set ttymouse to it automatically, for screen.
> 
> Towards a better solution: how straightforward do you think it'll be to
> talk the ncurses guys into adding support for some of screen's
> extensions? AFAIK, the only one I care about is the xterm mouse support;
> another interesting one is a boolean "supports ansi
> setforeground/setbackground codes"; but I usually infer this (if
> necessary) from the presence of setaf/setbf (not a given, but...).

I think you need to talk to more people than ncurses for changing the
termcap/terminfo entries.  But it's a good start.

- Bram

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