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1 ;;; t-mouse.el --- mouse support within the text terminal
3 ;; Author: Nick Roberts <nickrob@gnu.org>
4 ;; Maintainer: FSF
5 ;; Keywords: mouse gpm linux
7 ;; Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1998, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
9 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
11 ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
12 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
13 ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
14 ;; any later version.
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24 ;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
26 ;;; Commentary:
28 ;; This package provides access to mouse event as reported by the gpm-Linux
29 ;; package. It tries to reproduce the functionality offered by Emacs under X.
30 ;; The "gpm" server runs under Linux, so this package is rather
31 ;; Linux-dependent.
33 ;; The file, t-mouse.el was originally written by Alessandro Rubini and Ian T
34 ;; Zimmerman, and Emacs communicated with gpm through a client program called
35 ;; mev. Now the interface with gpm is directly through a Unix socket, so this
36 ;; file is reduced to a single minor mode macro call.
38 ;;
40 ;;; Code:
42 ;;;###autoload
43 (define-obsolete-function-alias 't-mouse-mode 'gpm-mouse-mode "23.1")
44 ;;;###autoload
45 (define-minor-mode gpm-mouse-mode
46 "Toggle gpm-mouse mode to use the mouse in GNU/Linux consoles.
47 With prefix arg, turn gpm-mouse mode on if arg is positive,
48 otherwise turn it off.
50 This allows the use of the mouse when operating on a GNU/Linux console,
51 in the same way as you can use the mouse under X11.
52 It relies on the `gpm' daemon being activated."
53 :global t :group 'mouse
54 (let ((activated nil))
55 (unwind-protect
56 (progn
57 (unless (fboundp 'gpm-mouse-start)
58 (error "Emacs must be built with Gpm to use this mode"))
59 (when gpm-mouse-mode
60 (gpm-mouse-start)
61 (setq activated t)))
62 ;; If the user asked to turn it off do that.
63 ;; If something failed to turn it on, try to turn it off as well,
64 ;; just in case.
65 (when (and (fboundp 'gpm-mouse-stop) (not activated))
66 (setq gpm-mouse-mode nil)
67 (gpm-mouse-stop)))))
69 (provide 't-mouse)
71 ;; arch-tag: a63163b3-bfbe-4eb2-ab4f-201cd164b05d
72 ;;; t-mouse.el ends here