From: "Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, "Jared Finder" <jared@finder.org>,
"Hanno Böck" <hanno@hboeck.de>, "Jann Horn" <jannh@google.com>,
"Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
jwilk@jwilk.net, "Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH man 1/1] TIOCLINUX.2const: Document TIOCL_SETSEL selection modes
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:13:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250223091342.35523-2-gnoack3000@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250223091342.35523-1-gnoack3000@gmail.com>
These previously undocumented selection modes for the Linux console
are implemented in drivers/tty/vt/selection.c.
Cc: Jared Finder <jared@finder.org>
Cc: Hanno Böck <hanno@hboeck.de>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: jwilk@jwilk.net
Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
---
man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const b/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const
index c0acdd0ea..27758584e 100644
--- a/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const
+++ b/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const
@@ -65,11 +65,49 @@ are the ending
column and row.
(Upper left corner is row=column=1.)
.I sel_mode
-is 0 for character-by-character selection,
-1 for word-by-word selection,
-or 2 for line-by-line selection.
-The indicated screen characters are highlighted and saved
-in a kernel buffer.
+may be one of the following operations:
+.RS
+.TP
+.B TIOCL_SELCHAR
+Select character-by-character.
+The indicated screen characters are highlighted
+and saved in a kernel buffer.
+.TP
+.B TIOCL_SELWORD
+Select word-by-word.
+The indicated screen characters are highlighted
+and saved in a kernel buffer.
+.TP
+.B TIOCL_SELLINE
+Select line-by-line.
+The indicated screen characters are highlighted
+and saved in a kernel buffer.
+.TP
+.B TIOCL_SELPOINTER
+Show the pointer at position
+.RI ( xe ", " ye ).
+.TP
+.B TIOCL_SELCLEAR
+Remove the current selection highlight, if any,
+from the console holding the selection.
+.TP
+.B TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT
+Report
+.RI ( xs ", " ys )
+as the current mouse location.
+In this selection mode,
+the lower 4 bits of
+.I sel_mode
+.RB ( TIOCL_SELBUTTONMASK )
+may additionally be set to indicate the desired button press and
+modifier key information for the mouse event.
+.\" https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html#h3-Normal-tracking-mode
+.IP
+If mouse reporting is not enabled for the terminal,
+this operation yields an
+.B EINVAL
+error.
+.RE
.IP
Since Linux 6.7, using this subcode requires the
.B CAP_SYS_ADMIN
--
2.48.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-23 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-23 9:13 [PATCH man 0/1] TIOCLINUX.2const: Document TIOCL_SETSEL selection modes Günther Noack
2025-02-23 9:13 ` Günther Noack [this message]
2025-02-23 16:35 ` [PATCH man 1/1] " Jared Finder
2025-02-23 19:15 ` Günther Noack
2025-02-23 19:36 ` Alejandro Colomar
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