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

[Jared Finder]

On 2024-12-28 00:54, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 23:08:27 -0800
> > From: Jared Finder <jared@finder.org>
> > Cc: shipmints@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, gerd.moellmann@gmail.com,
> >  fgunbin@fastmail.fm, 74833@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > >> What if we only auto-enabled xterm-mouse-mode on OSC52 compatible
> > >> terminals?
> > >
> > > On OSC52 compatible terminals, or on OSC52 compatible terminals that
> > > define TERM to xterm-like string?  The latter sounds like a good idea
> > > to me, but only if support for OSC52 necessarily means xterm-mouse
> > > escape sequences must be supported.  Is this conjecture indeed true?
> >
> > I'm proposing Emacs have a manually curated allow list for now for
> > auto-enabling xterm-mouse-mode. Being OSC52 compatible gets us the 
> > copy
> > / paste issue this bug mentioned. We can add other conditions going
> > forward.
>
> What would this allow list specify, and in what terms?
>
> When reading your proposal above, I thought we have a means of testing
> the OSC52 support, but now you seem to be saying that this support
> should be somehow specified by a database of terminals we maintain?
> ANd if so, the question of detecting a non-xterm terminal that sets
> TERM to xterm but doesn't support OSC52 still stands, doesn't it?

Yes, that's right. Unfortunately we are limited in two ways:

1. Setting TERM to xterm is commonly done by alternative terminals, even 
though they do not fully support all of xterm's functionality. I'd 
estimate that over 80% of alternative terminals just set TERM to 
xterm-256color. This includes the default terminals for Mac 
(Terminal.app), Windows (Windows Terminal), GNOME (GNOME Terminal), and 
KDE (Konsole).
2. There is no way to check if OSC52 is supported.

> > >> Between $TERM and the results from the terminal escape
> > >> sequence "ESC [ > 0 q", Emacs can have high confidence if it is
> > >> running
> > >> on an OSC52 compatible terminal. I checked against most of the
> > >> terminals
> > >> mentioned at
> > >> https://can-i-use-terminal.github.io/features/osc52copy.html I just
> > >> wasn't able to test Foot (Wayland-only), hterm (Chromebook-only),
> > >> mintty
> > >> (Cygwin-only), or xterm.js (I have no idea how to test).
> > >
> > > How do I check this? can you show some script or Lisp or whatever you
> > > used to check?
> >
> > Run the following lisp code in Emacs:
> >
> > (progn
> >    (send-string-to-terminal "\e[>0q")
> >    (let ((str "")
> >          chr)
> >      (while (setq chr (xterm--read-event-for-query))
> >        (setq str (concat str (string chr))))
> >      str))
> >
> > You should get the string "\eP>|terminal name and version\e\\". For
> > example, under iTerm2 I get iTerm2 3.5.10 as the terminal name and
> > version and under Kitty I get kitty(0.38.1).
>
> And if the terminal does NOT support OSC52, what should I expect to
> happen?

I'm proposing to add a single regexp that matches against the terminal 
name and version string. If there's a match, automatically enable 
xterm-mouse-mode. For terminals that aren't supported or don't support 
"\e[>0q", leave xterm-mouse-mode as is. No other complexity is needed. A 
user can always customize xterm-mouse-mode (it's a user option) if they 
want to enable it anyways.

  -- MJF