On 2022-02-24, Julius Hamilton wrote:
> On Wed 23. Feb 2022 at 19:34, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> I guess it depends on how your terminal receives those gestures. I am
> not sure, if a terminal can receive special mouse gestures like touch
> scroll but it really depends.
>
> Try in your terminal to go to insert mode, type Ctrl-V and then use one
> single gesture and see what vim receives.
> Awesome, thanks very much.
>
> What is the formal name of those character combinations?
One way to find the names is to type Ctrl-K instead of Ctrl-V before
generating the characters. For example, Ctrl-K followed by the left
arrow key will insert the six characters "<Left>".
See
:help i_CTRL-V
:help i_CTRL-K
> Then I will see about mapping them to mouse events I suppose?
>
> Or do the mouse events get mapped to Vim navigation commands or something?
See
:help mouse-overview
:help 09.2
Regards,
Gary