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Re: mastering the console & gpm mouse management



On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 05:32:58PM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Jon Dowland <jon-dowland@ncl.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:22:56PM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >> Jon Dowland <jon-dowland@ncl.ac.uk> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:01:58PM +0100, vincent.tournebise@free.fr wrote:
> >> >  
> >> >> Any chance to use the mouse in Links, or Aptitude ? or... maybe in Emacs ??
> >> 
> >> > Hi Vincent, links running in a terminal under X responds to mouse
> >> > actions. This is a result of mouse support in ncurses I believe. There's
> >> 
> >> no - links (and elinks/links2) doesn't use any features from ncurses.
> 
> > I presume you mean none of the mouse-related features from ncurses.
> 
> no, I was being precise: none

Why is it linked against ncurses?

~$ ldd `which links` | grep curses 
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x40167000)

ii  links                              0.99+1.00pre12-1



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