Bug#797872: info: please add an option to disable mouse support
Package: info
Version: 6.0.0.dfsg.1-3
Severity: normal
The info browser suddenly seems to have gained some sort
of mouse support. The symptoms are:
Normally, I start info in a GNU screen tab inside xterm,
then hit / and paste the thing I want to search for via
middle-click. This stopped working.
In mc, which also suddenly gained mouse support in screen,
I can circumvent this by holding Shift while middle-clicking
(mc has other problems though this is not the place for them).
This does not work correctly in info because it inserts the
CLIPBOARD then, not the PRIMARY selection.
This impedes my workflow with this already… unusual to use…
program a lot. Please disable mouse “support”, at least as
a (documented in the manpage) command line option, if not always.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unreleased
APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: x32 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, amd64
Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages info depends on:
ii install-info 6.0.0.dfsg.1-3
ii libc6 2.19-19
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20150810-1
info recommends no packages.
Versions of packages info suggests:
pn texinfo-doc-nonfree <none>
-- no debconf information
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