mev - a program to report mouse events

NAME

       mev - a program to report mouse events

SYNOPSIS

       mev [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

The ‘mev’ program is part of the gpm package. The information below is
extracted from the texinfo file, which is the preferred source of
information.

The ‘mev’ program is modeled after ‘xev’. It prints to ‘stdout’ the
mouse console events it gets.

‘mev’’s default behaviour is to get anything, but command line switches
can be used to set the various fields in the ‘Gpm_Connect’ structure,
in order to customize the program’s behaviour. I’m using ‘mev’ to
handle mouse events to Emacs.

Command line switches for ‘mev’ are the following:

-C number
Select a virtual console to get events from. This is intended
to be used for debugging.

-d number
Choose a default mask. By default the server gets any events not
belonging to the event mask. The mask can be provided either as
a decimal number, or as a symbolic string.

-e number
Choose the event mask. By default any event is received. The
mask can be provided either as a decimal number, or as a
symbolic string.

-E Enter emacs mode. In emacs mode events are reported as lisp
forms rather than numbers. This is the format used by the t-
mouse package within emacs.

-f Fit events inside the screen before reporting them. This options
re-fits drag events, which are allowed to exit the screen
border,

-i Interactive. Accepts input from ‘stdin’ to change connection
parameters.

-m number
Choose the minimum modifier mask. Any event with fewer modifiers
will not be reported to ‘mev’. It defaults to ‘0’. The mask
must be provided either as a decimal number, or as a symbolic
string.

-M number
Choose the maximum modifier mask. Any event with more modifier
than specified will not be reported to ‘mev’. It defaults to
‘ ~0’, i.e. all events are received. The mask must be provided
either as a decimal number, or as a symbolic string.

-p Requests to draw the pointer during drags. This option is used
by emacs to avoid invoking ‘ioctl()’ from lisp code.

When the arguments are not decimal integers, they are considered lists
of alphanumeric characters, separated by a single non-alphanumeric
character. I use the comma (‘,’), but any will do.

Allowed names for events are ‘move’, ‘drag’, ‘down’ or ‘press’, ‘up’ or
‘release’, ‘motion’ (which is both ‘move’ and ‘drag’), and ‘hard’.

Allowed names for modifiers are ‘shift’, ‘leftAlt’, ‘rightAlt’,
‘anyAlt’ (one or the other), ‘control’.

When the ‘-i’ switch is specified, ‘mev’ looks at its standard input as
command lines rather than events. The input lines are parsed, and the
commands ‘push’ and ‘pop’ are recognized.

The ‘push’ command, then, accepts the options ‘-d’, ‘-e’, ‘-m’ and
‘-M’, with the same meaning described above. Unspecified options retain
the previous value and the resulting masks are used to reopen the
connection with the server. ‘pop’ is used to pop the connection stack.
If an empty stack is popped the program exits.

Other commands recognized are ‘info’, used to return the stack depth;
‘quit’ to prematurely terminate the program; and ‘snapshot’ to get some
configuration information from the server.

BUGS

       Beginning with release 1.16, mev no longer works under  xterm.   Please
       use  the  rmev  program (provided in the sample directory) to watch gpm
       events under xterm or rxvt.  rmev also displays keyboard events besides
       mouse events.

AUTHOR

       Alessandro Rubini <rubini@linux.it>
       Ian Zimmerman <itz@speakeasy.org>

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