I had a look for information on this. I found https://www.xfree86.org/current/ctlseqs.html#Mouse%20Tracking Also this question from stackexchange has a helpful answer:Any terminal shell with mouse support?
| | | Any terminal shell with mouse support? | Perhaps the method that works with zsh in the first answer could be copied? The code from the script gives some pointers: http://stchaz.free.fr/mouse.zsh Mike On Tuesday, 19 January 2021, 08:11:14 GMT+13, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: On 1/17/21 6:57 PM, mcarans--- via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell wrote: > Hi, > It would be great to be able to use the mouse to click to position the >cursor in bash. I raised this with the Gnome terminal emulator here and they >said "The cursor position is under the control of the application, not the >terminal emulator. vte supports reporting the mouse click to the application, >and the application can reposition the cursor accordingly." > My request is that bash support the mouse information that terminal emulators > pass to it so that it is possible to click the mouse button to position the > cursor. What information does the terminal emulator pass to the application to indicate the desired position? How would readline translate that into a series of readline commands that would position the cursor, filtering out invalid requests, of course? This would require a lot more detail and a better specification before I would be able to do something with it. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
