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RE: Idea: xterm or gpm like mouse support
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- Subject: RE: Idea: xterm or gpm like mouse support
- From: "Doug Wyatt" <dwyatt at sunflower dot com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:17:59 -0500
- Reply-to: dwyatt at sunflower dot com
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Heinz-Juergen Oertel [mailto:oe@port.de]
>
>>> Wouldn't it be nice if cygwin had xterm or gpm like mouse support?
>>> Applications like vim and mc (don't know if the last one
>> works though) could
>>> benefit from this mousesupport, and as a side effect, the
>> annoying selection
>>> system from windows doesn't work any more.
>>>
>>> Don't have time to program it myself, though..
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>> I suggest that you should use rxvt -- search the mail archive for it.
>> with that terminal emulation you get mouse support and a
>> resizeable window
>> with colour.
>
> Hmmm, it doesn't seem to work, at least not with vim. After a "set mouse=a",
> I get no mouse support :-(
Well, you could try the GUI version of VIM, or even Lemmy, which is pretty good
except for a few relatively innocuous bugs. They're both Win32 software, but they
work and accept input from the mouse.
Doug Wyatt
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