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Bug#241717: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=241717



On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 01:10:37PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 06:43:30AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > hmm - no: you're confusing the mouse pointer and the text cursor.
> > Let's settle on using the terminology in the xterm manpage.
> 
> Just a minor point here...
> 
> In the submitter's defense, the xterm manpage does sometimes use
> "pointer", and sometimes uses "mouse".
> 
> I suggest changing "mouse" to "pointer" everywhere.

"mouse cursor" to "mouse pointer", yes.  The mouse is what you hold and
click, the pointer is what appears on the screen.

I overlooked that.  The one dealing with escape sequences is my wording from
~1996.  About a third of the features weren't documented, and this was one that
I added.
 
>                ors:  the vt100 foreground and background colors, the text cur-
>                sor color, the mouse cursor foreground and  background  colors,
>                the  Tektronix  emulator  foreground and background colors, and

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