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Re: mouse to move the cursor?

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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: mouse to move the cursor?
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:43:41 +0000
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2026-02-10 11:35:33 -0800, Ray Andrews:
[...]
> Understood.  Yeah ... zsh has no way of knowing where the the mouse is
> unless the terminal somehow communicated that ... and it doesn't.  Or mine
> doesn't, anyway.
[...]

xterm has had mouse tracking support for over 40 years I
beleive. I'd be surprised if any modern terminal emulator didn't
support it.

Surely you must have used mouse positioning in your text editor
or other TUI application before.

See
https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html#h2-Mouse-Tracking
for the escape sequences that control it.

-- 
Stephane

References:
- mouse to move the cursor?
  - From: Ray Andrews
- Re: mouse to move the cursor?
  - From: Bart Schaefer
- Re: mouse to move the cursor?
  - From: Ray Andrews

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