Mouse scroll events and mouse copying requiring [Shift]

[BarbzYHOOL]

shift works for Tilix

yes but why do we need shift and not just click??

Maybe you should ask the Tilix authors? They could probably shed further light on this.

Basically moar tells the terminal it wants mouse scroll events, and in most terminals (like Tilix), this has the side effect of disabling mouse copying.

Don't know why a lot of terminals disable mouse copying when reporting scroll events. In iTerm this is configurable so that you can copy without holding down any special button.

Comparing to less, less defaults to broken mouse scrolling but working copying. moar defaults to working mouse scrolling but broken copying.

Originally posted by @walles in walles/moar#53 (comment)

[egmontkob]

An application can request to receive mouse events: both clicks and scrolls. There's no protocol to request only one kind.

If an application enables this mode, both click and scroll events have to be explicitly sent to that app. That is, in order to revert to their traiditional operation (selecting text), a modifier needs to be pressed.

An application cannot request scroll events to be delivered but click events to be handled by the terminal for copy-pasting.

That being said, there's a special mode called "alternate screen scrolling". This is enabled in Tilix (VTE) by default. What it does is: For apps that do not request mouse event, but do switch to the so-called "alternate screen" (where there's no scrollback buffer, so mouse scroll events would do nothing), the terminal converts mouse scroll events to up/down keypresses. Your app sees the same as if you pressed the up or down arrow, and doesn't have a clue that it was initiated from a mouse wheel instead. While it works as expected in many cases, obviously there are many other cases where this can go wrong.

This feature was designed as a workaround for non-mouse-aware apps. Apps that wish to receive mouse events aren't supposed to rely on this mode, they are supposed to explicitly enable mouse support. And, yes, then you have to press Shift to highlight text in the terminal, that's the nature of the game.

[BarbzYHOOL]

ok thanks