Re: [PATCHv3 1/2] Initial TUI mouse support

Joel Brobecker
2021-06-04T18:40:08Z

> Obviously the printing random characters is bad. But it's possible that
> the not being able to select text is normal, as the application (GDB)
> now supports mouse events. In some terminal emulators, you can press
> shift while you click to say "I really want to select the display
> characters, not send mouse events to the program".
>
> It's the same with other TUI apps for me:
>
> - tmux (with "set -g mouse on" in ~/.tmux.conf)
> - tig (I don't remember if anything is needed to enable mouse support)
> - weechat (I don't remember if anything is needed to enable mouse
> support)

FWIW, "vim" behaves like that too.

That being said, if we go that route, we should probably have that
mentioned in the manual and in the NEWS file.

--
Joel