Re: Fwd: Mouse reporting and new standards

Egmont Koblinger wrote:

> Hi Bram and others,
>
> Returning to this old thread regarding mouse clicks beyond column 223...
>
> Seems that xterm's 1006 extension is going to be the "winning" one, rather
> than urxvt's 1015 mode. Almost all terminals that support any mouse
> coordinate extension do support this extension in their newest released or
> soon-to-be-released development versions. Probably urxvt is the only
> exception, but it's always been a bit odd amongs emulators, and I hope the
> developer will include support one day. This extension is also getting
> stronger on application side, e.g. Emacs-25 will support it too (only
> xterm's 1006 mode, not urxvt's 1015).
>
> I see that someone was kind enough to already provide support for 1006 in
> Vim.
>
> My only pet peeve is that the 1006 mode is not compiled in by default.
> Trying to think from a user's point of view, this extension is not a
> feature, it's a bugfix (of a broken protocol). With the default compile
> options, one can use mouse in the first 223 columns only - I doubt anyone
> would want this. Having no mouse support at all might make sense, full
> mouse support sure does make sense, but something in between doesn't for
> me, still that's what one gets after a simple ./configure && make.
>
> I think it would be great if people who have Vim with mouse support would
> be able to use it without limits, and without requiring to digging into
> configure options.
>
> We're very close to that: all it would take is a one-line patch in
> feature.h, making FEAT_MOUSE_SGR guarded by FEAT_NORMAL.
>
> If you agree that this is a bugfix and not an add-one feature, with minimal
> fingerprint in code size, and no risk at all (those terminals that don't
> support this extension will report old-fashioned codes and Vim will
> understand those too), then please consider making it a "normal" feature.
> This way most people would have this working automagically.

I do not think more than a few people run into the 223 column limit.
And the new feature only works with the latest terminal emulators. Thus
it doesn't appear all that important.

It's more a question of whether we want most things to be included in
the normal version. I must say that the huge version isn't much bigger
or slower. So, perhaps we should change it that the huge version is the
default, and those who want a small Vim can build with fewer features.

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