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Ved supports a mouse in, unfortunately, a limited set of situations. This is more to do with ncurses, than Ved ....
Your mouse will work if Ved is being run on a Linux VT and the gpm mouse handler is running and gpm support has been compiled into the ncurses library.
Your mouse will work if you are running Ved in an XTerm.
For other combinations, all bets are off.
Only the left button on your mouse is recognized by Ved. Other events are ignored.
Now, what does the mouse do?
- If you click on the editing screen the cursor will be moved to that location,
- If you click on a non-active screen (when multiple buffers are displayed on the same screen), that buffer will become active and the cursor will be moved to that location.
- Clicking on the left or right borders of a screen will move the cursor to the approximate percentage position of the line number relative to the vertical
size of the border. Of course, this only applies if the left, right or both
scroll indicator(s) are active.
- Clicking at top or bottom of the left or right scroll bar will move the cursor
forward/backward by one page.
- Clicking on a menu item will active the menu. You can also select items for a menu with the mouse once it is displayed.
- In the directory selector, the mouse will select a file to edit.
One further mouse note: If you are using an XTerm you might find that X's cut and paste has been disabled. No, it still works. But, you'll have to press the [Shift] key on the keyboard while using the normal cut/paste buttons on the mouse. Cutting from a Ved edit screen into an application like Netscape works; as does the opposite.
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2004-05-02