On 01/24/2009 12:24 AM, Countable Infinity wrote:
Experiment 1 =========== 1. Open gnome-terminal 2. Run vim 3. Run command :help in vim 4. Use scroll wheel of the mouse to scroll 5. Scrolling happens successfully Experiment 2 =========== 1. Open mrxvt 2. Run vim 3. Run command :help in vim 4. Use scroll wheel of the mouse to scroll 5. Scrolling does NOT happen successfully 6. Rn command :set mouse=a in vim 7. Scrolling happens successfully Could you please tell me why this difference occurs?
The short (and possibly wrong) answer would be that rxvt is designed to be small and simple: gnome-terminal is a lot more featureful than rxvt, and a lot fatter, and this must be one of the extra things that g-t can do.
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