emacs/lisp/t-mouse.el

;;; t-mouse.el --- mouse support within the text terminal

;; Author: Nick Roberts <nickrob@gnu.org>
;; Maintainer: FSF
;; Keywords: mouse gpm linux

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;;; Commentary:

;; This package provides access to mouse event as reported by the gpm-Linux
;; package. It tries to reproduce the functionality offered by Emacs under X.
;; The "gpm" server runs under Linux, so this package is rather
;; Linux-dependent.

;; The file, t-mouse.el was originally written by Alessandro Rubini and Ian T
;; Zimmerman, and Emacs communicated with gpm through a client program called
;; mev.  Now the interface with gpm is directly through a Unix socket, so this
;; file is reduced to a single minor mode macro call.

;; 

;;; Code:

;;;###autoload
(define-minor-mode t-mouse-mode
  "Toggle t-mouse mode to use the mouse in Linux consoles.
With prefix arg, turn t-mouse mode on if arg is positive, otherwise turn it
off.

This allows the use of the mouse when operating on a Linux console, in the
same way as you can use the mouse under X11.
It requires the `mev' program, part of the `gpm' utilities."
  :global t :group 'mouse
  (if window-system
      (error "t-mouse only works in the console on GNU/Linux")
    (if t-mouse-mode
	(progn
	  (unless (fboundp 'term-open-connection)
	    (progn
	      (setq t-mouse-mode nil)
	      (error "Emacs must be built with Gpm to use this mode")))
	  (unless (term-open-connection)
	    (progn
	      (setq t-mouse-mode nil)
	      (error "Can't open mouse connection"))))
      ;; Turn it off
      (term-close-connection))))

(provide 't-mouse)

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;;; t-mouse.el ends here