Re: Feature: where terminal reports mouse click to bash, support positioning the cursor accordingly

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, 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.

https://cfajohnson.com/shell/?2005-07-15_mousetraps

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