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

[Chet Ramey]

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

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