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0 pointsa_e_k4y ago0 comments

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!

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chrisfinazzo4y 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.

chrisfinazzo4y 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_kOP4y 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.

chrisfinazzo4y ago

The stink of it is, I had this working: mouse-mode, correct symlinks, all of it...for like 10 mins. before I realized, 'oh crud, I forgot to disable something' and in my haste of mucking w/ settings, tossed the good init I had trying to ID what was missing.

Self: You're dumb

I think I can recreate it, but I've got other stuff to do too, so this may get paused for a while - Monterey beckons as I have yet to take that plunge, although I really should soon.

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chrisfinazzo4y 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.

chrisfinazzo4y 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_kOP4y 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...

chrisfinazzo4y ago

Self: You're dumb

I think I can recreate it, but I've got other stuff to do too, so this may get paused for a while - Monterey beckons as I have yet to take that plunge, although I really should soon.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse