From: "Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: "Jared Finder" <jared@finder.org>,
"Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org, "Hanno Böck" <hanno@hboeck.de>,
"Jann Horn" <jannh@google.com>,
"Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
jwilk@jwilk.net
Subject: [PATCH man v2 2/2] TIOCLINUX.2const: Document missing TIOCL_SETSEL selection modes
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 22:36:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250223213642.10042-3-gnoack3000@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250223213642.10042-1-gnoack3000@gmail.com>
Documents the following TIOCL_SETSEL sub-operations:
* TIOCL_SELPOINTER
* TIOCL_SELCLEAR
* TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT
These previously undocumented selection modes for the Linux console
are implemented in drivers/tty/vt/selection.c. The name "selection
mode" is slightly misleading as not all of them actually manipulate
the kernel's mouse selection buffer.
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 | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const b/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const
index 5db3f6ea6..3aa1c7eb2 100644
--- a/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const
+++ b/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const
@@ -82,6 +82,35 @@ and saved in a kernel buffer.
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
+Make the terminal report
+.RI ( xs ,\~ ys )
+as the current mouse location
+using the
+.BR xterm (1)
+mouse tracking protocol
+(see
+.BR console_codes (4)).
+The lower 4 bits of
+.I sel_mode
+.RB ( TIOCL_SELBUTTONMASK )
+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
--
2.48.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-23 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-23 21:36 [PATCH man v2 0/2] TIOCLINUX.2const: Document TIOCL_SETSEL selection modes Günther Noack
2025-02-23 21:36 ` [PATCH man v2 1/2] TIOCLINUX.2const: Restructure documentation for " Günther Noack
2025-02-23 23:13 ` Jared Finder
2025-03-02 7:06 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-03-02 19:45 ` Günther Noack
2025-03-02 19:00 ` Günther Noack
2025-02-23 21:36 ` Günther Noack [this message]
2025-02-23 23:19 ` [PATCH man v2 2/2] TIOCLINUX.2const: Document missing " Jared Finder
2025-03-02 19:23 ` Günther Noack
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