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From: Andrew Markebo <andrew DOT markebo AT telia DOT com>
Subject: Re: emacs and mice, that is linux curses control of ssh and rxvt
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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:12:00 +0100
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/ Jerry Asher <jerry-sourceforge AT theashergroup DOT com> wrote:
| I have a slow connection to a remote machine.
>
| I can use X to connect to it, but I would prefer to:
>
| rxvt
| ssh to the machine
| emacs -nw
>
| And this works pretty well.  But there is no mouse control.

A quick version, you are doing a text-connection to the machine, and
the normal text-terminals doesn't support mouse transfer. 

gpm sniffs the local mouse-port, not the remote terminals.

    /Andy
>

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