I don't know much, but this forum[1][2] about mouse scrolling in Less suggests that you can implement mouse scrolling (in the most popular terminals) without reimplement ncurses inside the app. User ararus writes:
"You can't make less understand mouse events. ... You can ... have the xterminal program translate mouse events into suitable key presses. Rxvt (and I guess Xterm) uses the sequences '\e[?1000h' and '\e[?1000l' to turn mouse reporting on/off respectively. ... [That] merely prints the raw escape sequences to the console. That's Phase 1. Phase 2 is getting the relevant application to interpret those escape sequences properly ... [because] While less has configurable key bindings, the escape sequences contain the x/y coordinates on screen, so less will need to be modified to understand the sequences." Then ararus shows a patch to make less understand the control sequences. ---- [1] http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/less-command-output-i-cannot-scroll-through-it-627821/ (search for "\e[?1000h") [2] http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/less-command-output-i-cannot-scroll-through-it-627821/page2.html (search for "hack") -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
