GNU bug report logs - #74833
31.0.50; Copy to OS clipboard doesn't work in macOS Terminal.app with xterm-mouse-mode enabled

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>

Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:56:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 31.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #134 received at 74833 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: jared <at> finder.org, 74833 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm,
 Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#74833: 31.0.50; Copy to OS clipboard doesn't work in macOS
 Terminal.app with xterm-mouse-mode enabled
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 04:32:20 +0100
Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:07:25 -0500
>> Cc: fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm, gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com, jared <at> finder.org, 
>> 	74833 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> Now I see the recent change to master (Dec 9). I'd add that pretty much every other "curses" based app
>> that supports mouse activity defaults to mouse on, though. Not sure
>> why Emacs's recent default to on should
>> be surprising. People would be surprised that the mouse doesn't work. That Terminal.app also steals
>> command keys from those apps is also not a surprise.
>
> First, xt-mouse is not about curses, it's about xterm-specific mouse
> protocol.

Replace "curses" which he put in quotes with terminal application and
what Ship Mints says is true.

> And second, the issue here, at least for me, is not the user surprise
> that the mouse works, it's that features which used to work in Emacs
> when running on Terminal.app before that change cease to work, at
> least in some situations, now.

I really don't know what you are talking about when you write "feature
in Emacs". There is no feature _in_ Emacs that is broken. Emacs doesn't
even get a keyboard event for Command-C, it has no idea what is going
on.

It's Terminal.app that behaves differently. And Terminal.app has
previsions for that (Command-R, Fn-mouse).





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