;;; t-mouse.el --- mouse support within the text terminal
;; Author: Nick Roberts <nickrob@gnu.org>
-;; Maintainer: FSF
+;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org
;; Keywords: mouse gpm linux
-;; Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1998, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
-;; Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1994-1995, 1998, 2006-2016 Free Software Foundation,
+;; Inc.
;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
;; mev. Now the interface with gpm is directly through a Unix socket, so this
;; file is reduced to a single minor mode macro call.
-;;
+;;
\f
;;; Code:
(define-obsolete-function-alias 't-mouse-mode 'gpm-mouse-mode "23.1")
;;;###autoload
(define-minor-mode gpm-mouse-mode
- "Toggle gpm-mouse mode to use the mouse in GNU/Linux consoles.
-With prefix arg, turn gpm-mouse mode on if arg is positive,
-otherwise turn it off.
+ "Toggle mouse support in GNU/Linux consoles (GPM Mouse mode).
+With a prefix argument ARG, enable GPM Mouse mode if ARG is
+positive, and disable it otherwise. If called from Lisp, enable
+the mode if ARG is omitted or nil.
This allows the use of the mouse when operating on a GNU/Linux console,
in the same way as you can use the mouse under X11.
-It relies on the `gpm' daemon being activated."
+It relies on the `gpm' daemon being activated.
+
+Note that when `gpm-mouse-mode' is enabled, you cannot use the
+mouse to transfer text between Emacs and other programs which use
+GPM. This is due to limitations in GPM and the Linux kernel."
:global t :group 'mouse :init-value t
(dolist (terminal (terminal-list))
(when (and (eq t (terminal-live-p terminal))
(provide 't-mouse)
-;; arch-tag: a63163b3-bfbe-4eb2-ab4f-201cd164b05d
;;; t-mouse.el ends here