Mouse reporting in cygwin

Christopher Faylor cgf@bbc.com
Sat Jan 24 21:53:00 GMT 1998


In article < 199801211146.LAA00114@tailor.aleim.net >,  <vischne@ibm.net> wrote:
>Has anyone verified whether ansi/vt1--/linux mouse-reporting works
>in cygwin.dll?
>
>I'm referring to the ESC[Mbxy stdin sequence that is sent when a mouse
>button is clicked, giving the button and the x-y coordinates.  If you
>want bash-in-a-dos-window to behave like xterm for ported Unix apps,
>that sequence is important.  As is the sequence that turns mouse-click
>reporting on and off.

I don't think that cygwin does any mouse handling but it sure would be
nice.  I would particularly like xterm like selection.

It wouldn't be terrifically hard to add, though.
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