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2956	Newer protocol for extended mouse clicks	egmont	slavazanko	"This is a followup of ticket 2662.

MC currently has support for mouse clicks beyond column 223, using urxvt's ""SGR 1015"" extension.

A followup extension, ""SGR 1006"" was invented by xterm, to overcome some of the shortcomings of the previous one.  It is becoming as widespread as the previous one, and is likely to soon overtake it in popularity.  Some developers are actually quite against adopting two extensions, and are likely to stick with the newer ones.  (Actually I had a hard time convincing vte's developer not to drop urxvt's extension yet, but he might want to drop it after a while.)

I attach a patch which changes MC to use this newer extension, instead of the older one.

Note that most of the patch is just the removal of the huge complexity introduced by the previous one.  The previous extension didn't have a unique prefix which made the whole parsing logic extremely complicated.  The new extension does have a unique prefix, so parsing becomes a piece of cake.  The code becomes much cleaner and much easier to maintain.

Could you please apply this patch to the development branch?  This would be a huge step towards settling down in one of these extensions, rather than carrying around the crazyness of more of them, and to be able to retire the 1015 extension in a few years.
"	enhancement	closed	major	4.8.8	mc-tty	4.8.7	fixed	mouse				merged	committed-master