Re: mouse to move the cursor?
Stephane Chazelas <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:17:14 +0000
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2026-02-10 08:08:22 -0800, Ray Andrews: > 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? Since most everything is now mouse-capable, out of habit I > often find myself clicking on a recalled zsh command line to position the > cursor. Of course it doesn't work, but *could* it work? I'd expect it to be > viewed as a silly luxury even if it was doable, but I'll mention the idea > anyway. If that kind of thinking was acceptable one might even contemplate > various other mousey things, like maybe the scroll wheel activating command > recall or being able to dedicate left and right clicks to assigned widgets > or commands ... could get interesting. I wrote http://stchaz.free.fr/mouse.zsh for that decades ago as a proof of concept. I never really used it as I generally don't use a mouse. It was functional back then at least when using single-byte single-width characters. I beleive someone had pulled it into oh-my-zsh or another plugin system and possibly improved it. -- Stephane