Brethren,

I am experiencing a sudden behavioral change in a Perl/ncurses application. The application itself (icbm, an ICB client, which I maintain) was last updated on October 8; the terminal emulator it runs in (alacritty), on November 27. However, Perl was recently updated from v5.28.2 to v5.30.1. I am uncertain precisely when the behavioral change occurred, but it is definitely more recent than the alacritty update.

What APPEARS to me to be happening is that something that I have not yet identified is now "helpfully" auto-translating mouse-wheel up/down events into Up/Down KEY events. This is causing the mousewheel to scroll through my input history instead of scrolling my terminal window, which is Bad because it means I no longer have a way to scroll the terminal in this application.

Is anyone aware of any behavioral change in Perl 5.30 which would account for this?

In reply to Behavioral change in Perl 5.30? by Llew_Llaw_Gyffes

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