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28.0.50; Mouse events in terminal emacs

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Message #71 received at 45834 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 45834 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45834: 28.0.50; Mouse events in terminal emacs
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 09:30:19 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org,  45834 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 22:22:48 -0400
> 
> Eli wrote:
> > I meant the original input: "ESC [ I"  This should be a complete key
> > sequence, given the following:
> >
> >     (define-key map "\e[I" #'xterm-translate-focus-in)
> 
> `xterm-translate-focus-in` works at the level of keysequence remapping,
> so "ESC [ I" is indeed a complete sequence but *for a remapping* and
> it's remapped to the empty keysequence, which is not a complete keysequence.
> 
> In the sense of `C-h k`, "\e[I" is not bound to `xterm-translate-focus-in`.
> 
> AFAIK we don't currently have a command to query which key-remapping
> happened for a given sequence of events, IOW, there is no equivalent to
> `C-h k` that could tell the user that "\e[I" is "bound" to
> `xterm-translate-focus-in`.
> 
> The closest that we have is that `C-h k` will tell the users both the
> remapped keysequence and the original ("untranslated") keysequence.

So you are basically saying that this stuff works as intended, and the
key-echo should be considered a "feature", or at worst a harmless
misfeature?

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