Re: Defining HAVE_MOUSE on Cygwin

[Ken Brown]

On 10/7/2012 3:47 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 15:38:24 -0400
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> >
> > > > > But if that works, my fears notwithstanding, why confine this to
> > > > > Cygwin?  If we believe that emacs-nox will always run on a
> > > > > mouse-capable terminal, let's turn on HAVE_MOUSE in all Posix builds.
> > > > Actually, I can't see why we have HAVE_MOUSE at all nowadays.
> > > Perhaps someone should try compiling a -nox configuration with
> > > HAVE_MOUSE defined and without GPM, and see if it works well on a text
> > > terminal on Unix or GNU/Linux (a _real_ text terminal, not xterm).
> >
> > I'm not claiming it works.  I'm claiming that there's no good reason why
> > it shouldn't work, so if it doesn't work it's a bug.  We should remove
> > HAVE_MOUSE and fix any breakage that might ensue (but since Emacs works
> > fine under xterm with xterm-mouse-mode disabled, I don't expect too
> > much breakage at least under GNU/Linux).
>
> If no one beats me to it, I will try that in a GNU/Linux TTY session
> one of these days.

It looks like we all forgot about this.  Stefan, is the attached patch 
what you had in mind?

Ken

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