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0 pointsmarcosdumay3y ago0 comments

On Debian with the distro package, I never even thought about mouse integration. (On the Xorg interface. So much basic stuff - not emacs stuff, but really basic stuff - has been moving into DEs that I don't think the bare console is usable anymore.)

The insertion point is moved by clicking and by using the scroll wheel (now that I've thought about it, maybe I should change that second one), clicking and dragging and double click change the selection.

I normally don't use the mouse, but for moving text between windows it's nice.

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a_e_k3y ago

M-x xterm-mouse-mode gives an experience in the console that's pretty darn faithful to the full GUI when it comes to mouse interaction. Clicking, selection, and scroll wheel all work pretty much as expected. Even menus and pop-menus work; the new TTY menu in 28.1 is pretty slick!

chrisfinazzo3y ago

Confession: I'm a BBEdit user most of the time, so take my questions here with a grain of salt. Although I don't need it often, I still felt the impulse to take a side w.r.t emacs and vi.

I'll see if I can dig out my old init.el from backups and try to get it up and running with 28.1. I actually hadn't heard about the scroll wheel stuff before, so that might be one way to solve this for me.

chrisfinazzo3y ago

Is there a setting in Customize to control whether to use init.el or .emacs for configuration? Trying to set symlinks from $HOME to another directory and it's fighting me...

a_e_k3y ago

I believe the code that controls that is all in startup.el (or startup.el.gz) in the Emacs distribution. You can find the documentation here:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fi...

I do know that ~/.emacs takes precedence over ~/.emacs.d/init.el. I've taken advantage of that in the past to keep all the public configuration that I share between machines in ~/.emacs.d/init.el, and then on my work machine I had a ~/.emacs that wraps a (load "~/.emacs.d/init") with some company-specific configuration.

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0 pointsmarcosdumay3y ago0 comments

I normally don't use the mouse, but for moving text between windows it's nice.

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a_e_k3y ago

chrisfinazzo3y ago

Confession: I'm a BBEdit user most of the time, so take my questions here with a grain of salt. Although I don't need it often, I still felt the impulse to take a side w.r.t emacs and vi.

chrisfinazzo3y ago

Is there a setting in Customize to control whether to use init.el or .emacs for configuration? Trying to set symlinks from $HOME to another directory and it's fighting me...

a_e_k3y ago

I believe the code that controls that is all in startup.el (or startup.el.gz) in the Emacs distribution. You can find the documentation here:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fi...

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