Greetings.
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:14:22 +0100 Egmont Koblinger <egmont_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> The original mouse protocol for terminals encodes the coordinates as a
> single byte (plus 32) hence only allows coordinates up to 223.
>
> Xterm's SGR 1006 extension changes to a different format which allows
> arbitrary coordinates. This extension is getting widely adopted across
> terminals (e.g. xterm, vte, konsole, iterm2, putty...), as well as
> applications (vim, emacs...). Tmux has a patch too:
> http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/tickets/26/?page=1
>
> Please see my patch, it adds support for this extension. Furthermore, if
> the extension is turned off, it modifies the behavior of post-223 clicks:
> it makes it report nothing rather than bogus coordinates.
>
> (To make the story more complicated, there was a first extension (1005)
> made by xterm, which is terribly broken, then a second one (1015) by urxvt,
> which is kinda okay, and this is the third one. It looks pretty much that
> this is going to be the "winning" one. For the sake of simplicity I only
> added support for this latter, but it might be very easy to support 1015
> too. On the application front, currently Midnight Commander uses this 1015
> extension, but I will ask them (send them patch) to switch to the newer
> 1006 mode. Let me know if you'd prefer to support 1006 too, it can be
> added in practically no time.)
>
> I hope you like my patch, let me know if you have any questions.
Your patch is applied. But I had to modify it because your patch is
against 0.3, but git has moved fast.
What is your test case for this? A big htop window where you click in?
Please try out if it works for you in the latest st from the git reposi‐
tory.
Sincerely,
Christoph Lohmann
Received on Sat Jan 26 2013 - 15:14:22 CET