These previously undocumented selection modes for the Linux console are implemented in drivers/tty/vt/selection.c. Cc: Jared Finder <jared@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hanno Böck <hanno@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: jwilk@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@xxxxxxxxx> --- man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const b/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const index c0acdd0ea..27758584e 100644 --- a/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const +++ b/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const @@ -65,11 +65,49 @@ are the ending column and row. (Upper left corner is row=column=1.) .I sel_mode -is 0 for character-by-character selection, -1 for word-by-word selection, -or 2 for line-by-line selection. -The indicated screen characters are highlighted and saved -in a kernel buffer. +may be one of the following operations: +.RS +.TP +.B TIOCL_SELCHAR +Select character-by-character. +The indicated screen characters are highlighted +and saved in a kernel buffer. +.TP +.B TIOCL_SELWORD +Select word-by-word. +The indicated screen characters are highlighted +and saved in a kernel buffer. +.TP +.B TIOCL_SELLINE +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 +Report +.RI ( xs ", " ys ) +as the current mouse location. +In this selection mode, +the lower 4 bits of +.I sel_mode +.RB ( TIOCL_SELBUTTONMASK ) +may additionally be set to 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 .B CAP_SYS_ADMIN -- 2.48.1
