emacs xterm-mouse-mode双击以突出显示单词

Question

I have to use xterm-mouse-mode to support mouse when using emacs via ssh, but i found it will not highlight the whole word when i double click on a character of the word. Instead it only highlight the character under the mouse. How can i fix it?

Answer 1

Ch f xterm-mouse-mode says:

...works for simple uses of the mouse. Basically, only non-modified
single clicks are supported. When turned on, the normal xterm...

So, I'm afraid double clicks are known not to work (they are seen by Emacs as 2 normal clicks).

EDIT 2014-Aug-29: This limitation has been recently lifted in Emacs's trunk (ie not in the upcoming 24.4 but in the next version instead).

Answer 2

Highlighting does not work in the non-windowed version of emacs (emacs run in a terminal window). It's hard to tell whether things are being highlighted which is why I recommend using C-space (Mark-set) to highlight things instead as it gives you a little more control rather than enabling xterm-mouse-mode as sometimes you may not double click correctly.