Re: mouse to move the cursor?

Ray Andrews <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:35:33 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.zsh.devel,gmane.comp.shells.zsh.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 2026-02-10 10:56, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 8:08 AM Ray Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This might sound outright heretical and it probably is, still ... would it be possible to be able to use the mouse to position the cursor within a command line?
> This is a terminal-emulator thing rather than a zsh thing,  If your
> terminal can translate the mouse-click into the correct
> cursor-relative movement and send it to the terminal, the cursor will
> move.
Understood.  Yeah ... zsh has no way of knowing where the the mouse is 
unless the terminal somehow communicated that ... and it doesn't.  Or 
mine doesn't, anyway.