> From: Bruno Haible <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 13:20:46 +0200 > Cc: Texinfo <[email protected]> > > Hi Gavin, > > Thanks for having turned off the mouse mode by default in 6.1. > The new default mode fits well with all possible habits: > scroll through cursor key movements, scroll through mouse whell, > AND allow marking a region with mouse-left. > > Thanks also for having documented the trick with Shift-mouse-left. > > > The manual notes the following work-around if the feature is turned on: > > > > 'mouse' > > What method to use to get input from a mouse device. The default > > value is 'Off'. Set this variable to 'normal-tracking' to make > > Info use "normal tracking mode" if it detects that the terminal > > supports it. > > In version 6.0, in KDE konsole with TERM=xterm, when I try the recipe > mentioned by Eli > > You can already do "M-x set-variable RET mouse RET Off RET". > > it has no effect: Even after this operation, the mouse wheel scrolls > and the mouse-left key doesn't mark a region. > > Similarly, in version 6.3 with TERM=xterm, in KDE konsole, when I try > > M-x set-variable RET mouse RET normal-tracking RET > > it has no effect: Even after this operation, the mouse wheel scrolls.
In both versions you mentioned, the effect of setting the 'mouse' variable is as documented: when set to Off, the mouse wheel has no effect, when set to 'normal-tracking', the wheel scrolls. So I'm unsure why that doesn't work for you.
