alt Hacker NewsInteresting. All I wish I could do in a terminal is moving the cursor by clicking. And maybe selecting some text and replacing it with a single key stroke. Why is that not a thing?
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cowlevel • yesterday at 12:02 PM
Because a terminal emulator is emulating 1970s technology and the mouse hadn't been invented yet. We do have a way for apps to accept mouse input, believe it or not, but it's usually done by avoiding the 1970s emulation layer. As a bonus, you get full control over your screen pixels too!
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Windows Terminal allows moving the cursor by clicking. It's such a good terminal emulator that it's the thing I miss the most when I'm on Linux.
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal