microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Allow mouse clicks to reposition cursor by emitting cursor key sequences
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This got added in #15758, as"experimental.repositionCursorWithMouse":true. See also https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/8573#issuecomment-2035495548
Description of the new feature/enhancement
Windows Terminal version: 1.4.3243.0
Windows Version: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19042.630]
Also using:
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(3)-release (x86_64-unknown-cygwin) under cygwin
GNU bash, version 4.4.23(2)-release (x86_64-pc-msys) under msys2
GNU bash, version 5.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) under Ubuntu 20.04 WSL 2
It is not possible to place the cursor with the mouse in any of these shells under Windows Terminal. It is, however, quite possible to do this when running bash with msys2, cygwin or wsl on mintty (or WSL terminal).
This issue was discussed in #4268, where it was dismissed because I'm not sure I know of any shell application that actually supports that tbh.. This is patently not the case as it is supported in the integrations between bash and mintty (and the same bash as used by mintty is being loaded in Windows Terminal).
Mouse support was tracked in #376, #545 and #5177. There was a pull request in #/pull/4859 to close some of these issues, however cursor placement still doesn't appear to work in the applications I listed.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the original mouse-support discussion and the implementation referenced in #15758, including the experimental.repositionCursorWithMouse setting. Verify whether the setting already emits cursor key sequences for the listed bash environments; done means cursor placement works as requested, but the feature is already reported as added.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- bash, cpp
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 10/100