bug#74833: 31.0.50; Copy to OS clipboard doesn't work in macOS Terminal.app with xterm-mouse-mode enabled

[Gerd Möllmann]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:07:25 -0500
>> Cc: fgunbin@fastmail.fm, gerd.moellmann@gmail.com, jared@finder.org, 
>>      74833@debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> Now I see the recent change to master (Dec 9). I'd add that pretty much 
>> every other "curses" based app
>> that supports mouse activity defaults to mouse on, though. Not sure
>> why Emacs's recent default to on should
>> be surprising. People would be surprised that the mouse doesn't work. That 
>> Terminal.app also steals
>> command keys from those apps is also not a surprise.
>
> First, xt-mouse is not about curses, it's about xterm-specific mouse
> protocol.

Replace "curses" which he put in quotes with terminal application and
what Ship Mints says is true.

> And second, the issue here, at least for me, is not the user surprise
> that the mouse works, it's that features which used to work in Emacs
> when running on Terminal.app before that change cease to work, at
> least in some situations, now.

I really don't know what you are talking about when you write "feature
in Emacs". There is no feature _in_ Emacs that is broken. Emacs doesn't
even get a keyboard event for Command-C, it has no idea what is going
on.

It's Terminal.app that behaves differently. And Terminal.app has
previsions for that (Command-R, Fn-mouse).