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To: "Karl M. Hegbloom" <karlheg@inetarena.com>
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Subject: Re: t-mouse.el: punt
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From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Date: 05 May 1997 15:43:25 -0700
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"Karl M. Hegbloom" <karlheg@inetarena.com> writes:

>  I blurted a week or so ago that I was going to try and port
> t-mouse.el to XEmacs...  It's the program that integrates the Linux
> GPM (general purpose mouse) and `mev` programs with FSF GNU Emacs,
> making the mouse work in emacs on the Linux console.
> 
>  I'm totally lost; and cannot do the port, so I am going to punt.  I
> would be interested, someday, in seeing how it got done by someone who
> understands it better than I do right now.

  There are already patches for XEmacs to have _native_ GPM mouse support
in the XEmacs bug database at
http://www.xemacs.org/beta/bugs/messages/misc/154

  I implemented this around 19.14, but didn't have time to finish it up.
It basically lacks mouse-motion events.  Clicking, dragging, etc. works
just fine.  selecting via the mouse is a little odd since the mouse-motion
events don't get sent, so the selection-tracking doesn't happen.

-Bill P.

