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Bug#683942: xterm: alternate screen scrolling



On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 09:40:22AM -0700, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> Package: xterm
> Version: 278-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I used gnome-terminal recently and noticed that using the mouse wheel
> caused scrolling within apps like vim.  I thought that was strange,
> because I disabled mouse support in vim.  It turns out gnome-terminal
> has a feature called "alternate screen scrolling".  When you are in the
> alternate screen, it translates the mouse wheel into three up or down
> arrow presses.
> 
> This is obviously a hack, but I want it.  (I don't like enabling mouse
> support in vim because it takes over the mouse entirely, and as far as I
> understand there is no way for it to only take the wheel.)  I thought I
> might be able to set up my own translations, but I don't think there is
> a way to define translations that apply only in the alternate screen.
> 
> Is there another way for me to get this behavior?

It's fairly simple as an addition to xterm, probably hard other ways...

That sounds like a note that I made with reference to a comment about
konsole early this year:

120207
	if mouse-mode enabled, wheel mouse _does_ same.  arch-user wants it
	to send up/down arrows, sez konsole does this.
**	120208 better, add a control sequence for switching between sets of
	mouse translations, including konsole's combination.

(I'm currently working on complicated changes in vile and lynx, thinking
I'll work on xterm next...)

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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