> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 15:40:44 +0100 > From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]> > Cc: Texinfo <[email protected]> > > On 6 April 2015 at 15:19, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 15:03:43 +0100 > >> From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]> > >> Cc: Texinfo <[email protected]> > >> > >> 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? > > It might matter if one method works better than another, or the user > might just be curious. I was mainly thinking that this variable might > have other options in the future, such as other terminal modes (there > are several that can read mouse events) or getting events from the gpm > daemon.
Ah, okay. Then I think those other options should not be available on Windows, as there's only the "normal-tracking" method there. OTOH, having a Windows-only value would mean users cannot have platform-independent init files and/or muscle memory.
