X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RDNS_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <5029B237.7010501@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 04:04:39 +0200 From: Herbert Stocker User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Strange "mouse" behavior in mintty References: <50290217 DOT 6050202 AT cs DOT utoronto DOT ca> In-Reply-To: <50290217.6050202@cs.utoronto.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Hi Ryan, On 13.08.2012 15:33, Ryan Johnson wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm hitting a mouse-related (?) problem with mintty in non-mouse mode. > > STC A: Log into a remote machine, invoke `sleep 10', and -- during the > wait --- click anywhere on the line containing the cursor. > > STC B: Open tinyirc and click anywhere on the text entry line at the > bottom > > Both cases will insert a long string like this: > ^[[C^[[C^[[C^[[C^[[C^[[C^[[C^[[C^[[C^[[C^[[C^[[C^[[C (only about 4x > longer) Did you notice that when you click somewhere in the command line, the cursor moves to that position? i think it has to do with that. Go to the options dialog, select "Mouse" and uncheck "Clicks place command line cursor". The effect should go away. Herbert > I suspect this is a problem with the way mintty tries to be helpful > with the mouse when the app's not mouse-aware. Running STC A on a > local mintty/bash sesson will place the cursor wherever you clicked, > which while harmless is arguably incorrect (and probably the source of > troubles). > > Any ideas? > Ryan > > > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple