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Re: mouse to move the cursor?

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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: mouse to move the cursor?
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:35:33 -0800
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On 2026-02-10 10:56, Bart Schaefer wrote:

On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 8:08 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 isunless the terminal somehow communicated that ... and it doesn't. Ormine doesn't, anyway.

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