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In Ubuntu, is there any terminal that allows for the position of the cursor to be moved with the mouse?
The Next CEO of Stack OverflowCursor positioning using mouse in bash possible?How do I cut and paste terminal I/O without using the mouse?Better terminal for Ubuntu?run gnome-terminal with executable commandWhy are lines with man and news underlined in the terminal?How to see command history?Modify Shortcut Tab Between Terminals?Shell with better editing capabilitiesStarting the GUI terminal with specific variablesHow can I increase the speed of the cursor in Gnome terminal?How to select by the word in the terminal with quick keys?
For example, if I find I miss one letter in a long command, currently I need to press ← to move the cursor, which is slow.
Why can't we use mouse to put the cursor in the place we want?
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For example, if I find I miss one letter in a long command, currently I need to press ← to move the cursor, which is slow.
Why can't we use mouse to put the cursor in the place we want?
gnome-terminal
1
Did you try Ctrl - left or Ctrl - right?
– user85164
Oct 16 '13 at 4:48
1
Thank. I knew it. I hope a more flexible move. I think the mouse is much more convenient. I find the python console in PyCharm is as friendly as an editor. But how about other terminals?
– user1914692
Oct 16 '13 at 5:27
1
I would love to know if this was possible with gnome-terminal. Apparently you can do so in OSX: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051091.
– Aibara
Jan 14 '14 at 6:24
For native terminal, you will probably have no luck. See the mouse section in the terminal howto of The Linux Documentation Project.
– Izzy
Jan 16 '14 at 21:58
add a comment |
For example, if I find I miss one letter in a long command, currently I need to press ← to move the cursor, which is slow.
Why can't we use mouse to put the cursor in the place we want?
gnome-terminal
For example, if I find I miss one letter in a long command, currently I need to press ← to move the cursor, which is slow.
Why can't we use mouse to put the cursor in the place we want?
gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal
edited Jan 17 '14 at 12:57
Richard
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asked Oct 16 '13 at 4:25
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Did you try Ctrl - left or Ctrl - right?
– user85164
Oct 16 '13 at 4:48
1
Thank. I knew it. I hope a more flexible move. I think the mouse is much more convenient. I find the python console in PyCharm is as friendly as an editor. But how about other terminals?
– user1914692
Oct 16 '13 at 5:27
1
I would love to know if this was possible with gnome-terminal. Apparently you can do so in OSX: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051091.
– Aibara
Jan 14 '14 at 6:24
For native terminal, you will probably have no luck. See the mouse section in the terminal howto of The Linux Documentation Project.
– Izzy
Jan 16 '14 at 21:58
add a comment |
1
Did you try Ctrl - left or Ctrl - right?
– user85164
Oct 16 '13 at 4:48
1
Thank. I knew it. I hope a more flexible move. I think the mouse is much more convenient. I find the python console in PyCharm is as friendly as an editor. But how about other terminals?
– user1914692
Oct 16 '13 at 5:27
1
I would love to know if this was possible with gnome-terminal. Apparently you can do so in OSX: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051091.
– Aibara
Jan 14 '14 at 6:24
For native terminal, you will probably have no luck. See the mouse section in the terminal howto of The Linux Documentation Project.
– Izzy
Jan 16 '14 at 21:58
1
1
Did you try Ctrl - left or Ctrl - right?
– user85164
Oct 16 '13 at 4:48
Did you try Ctrl - left or Ctrl - right?
– user85164
Oct 16 '13 at 4:48
1
1
Thank. I knew it. I hope a more flexible move. I think the mouse is much more convenient. I find the python console in PyCharm is as friendly as an editor. But how about other terminals?
– user1914692
Oct 16 '13 at 5:27
Thank. I knew it. I hope a more flexible move. I think the mouse is much more convenient. I find the python console in PyCharm is as friendly as an editor. But how about other terminals?
– user1914692
Oct 16 '13 at 5:27
1
1
I would love to know if this was possible with gnome-terminal. Apparently you can do so in OSX: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051091.
– Aibara
Jan 14 '14 at 6:24
I would love to know if this was possible with gnome-terminal. Apparently you can do so in OSX: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051091.
– Aibara
Jan 14 '14 at 6:24
For native terminal, you will probably have no luck. See the mouse section in the terminal howto of The Linux Documentation Project.
– Izzy
Jan 16 '14 at 21:58
For native terminal, you will probably have no luck. See the mouse section in the terminal howto of The Linux Documentation Project.
– Izzy
Jan 16 '14 at 21:58
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Use emacs.
sudo apt-get install emacs
Upon the install, start emacs:emacs
Press Alt+X, and type term
and press Enter. Voila!
You have a terminal where you can change the cursor position with mouse.
If mouse click does not change the cursor (in 99% of the cases, it will, by default), then put (xterm-mouse-mode t) in your .emacs file:
echo (xterm-mouse-mode t) > ~/.emacs
Since there doesn't seem to be a way with gnome-terminal, this seems like the easiest method.
– Aibara
Jan 20 '14 at 2:45
I just tried the method. The mouse click does not change the cursor. Then as instructed, I put: echo (xterm-mouse-mode t) > ~/.emacs; The error information is: bash: syntax error near unexpected token `xterm-mouse-mode' (I use Ubuntu 16.04)
– user1914692
Aug 14 '16 at 16:27
add a comment |
The terminal itself can take mouse input. You can test this opening a text file with nano
and enabling mouse
(M-M) Mouse support enable/disable
(On my keyboard that's ESC+M.)
Then you can change the position of the cursor by clicking.
If you are asking about changing the position of cursor in the SHELL, there was a discussion in ubuntuforums mentioning gpm. There is also a duplicate of this question in stackoverflow with some alternatives proposed.
The question is about the shell, specifically moving the cusor position (since you can easily select text with the mouse, for instance, in gnome-terminal).
– Aibara
Jan 14 '14 at 19:53
why the downvote? The original question was a bit ambiguous.
– Eero Aaltonen
Jan 21 '14 at 9:11
add a comment |
In vi mode (when the the command line behave as vi, enabled by set -o vi
) you can launch a full vi to edit the current line:
Pass in command mode with ESC
, then press v
. and in vi you should be able to use your mouse to move to the expect character.
I don't know if this kind of command exist for the emacs mode (set -o emacs
), the default one.
add a comment |
echo -e "e[?1000;1006;1015h" # Enable mouse tracking
Script : I made a bash script to move bash readline cursor on mouse click on my github
Details : Read my answer in another post
New contributor
add a comment |
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Use emacs.
sudo apt-get install emacs
Upon the install, start emacs:emacs
Press Alt+X, and type term
and press Enter. Voila!
You have a terminal where you can change the cursor position with mouse.
If mouse click does not change the cursor (in 99% of the cases, it will, by default), then put (xterm-mouse-mode t) in your .emacs file:
echo (xterm-mouse-mode t) > ~/.emacs
Since there doesn't seem to be a way with gnome-terminal, this seems like the easiest method.
– Aibara
Jan 20 '14 at 2:45
I just tried the method. The mouse click does not change the cursor. Then as instructed, I put: echo (xterm-mouse-mode t) > ~/.emacs; The error information is: bash: syntax error near unexpected token `xterm-mouse-mode' (I use Ubuntu 16.04)
– user1914692
Aug 14 '16 at 16:27
add a comment |
Use emacs.
sudo apt-get install emacs
Upon the install, start emacs:emacs
Press Alt+X, and type term
and press Enter. Voila!
You have a terminal where you can change the cursor position with mouse.
If mouse click does not change the cursor (in 99% of the cases, it will, by default), then put (xterm-mouse-mode t) in your .emacs file:
echo (xterm-mouse-mode t) > ~/.emacs
Since there doesn't seem to be a way with gnome-terminal, this seems like the easiest method.
– Aibara
Jan 20 '14 at 2:45
I just tried the method. The mouse click does not change the cursor. Then as instructed, I put: echo (xterm-mouse-mode t) > ~/.emacs; The error information is: bash: syntax error near unexpected token `xterm-mouse-mode' (I use Ubuntu 16.04)
– user1914692
Aug 14 '16 at 16:27
add a comment |
Use emacs.
sudo apt-get install emacs
Upon the install, start emacs:emacs
Press Alt+X, and type term
and press Enter. Voila!
You have a terminal where you can change the cursor position with mouse.
If mouse click does not change the cursor (in 99% of the cases, it will, by default), then put (xterm-mouse-mode t) in your .emacs file:
echo (xterm-mouse-mode t) > ~/.emacs
Use emacs.
sudo apt-get install emacs
Upon the install, start emacs:emacs
Press Alt+X, and type term
and press Enter. Voila!
You have a terminal where you can change the cursor position with mouse.
If mouse click does not change the cursor (in 99% of the cases, it will, by default), then put (xterm-mouse-mode t) in your .emacs file:
echo (xterm-mouse-mode t) > ~/.emacs
edited Jan 14 '14 at 21:03
Seth♦
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answered Jan 14 '14 at 7:01
Bhavin DoshiBhavin Doshi
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1,8381833
Since there doesn't seem to be a way with gnome-terminal, this seems like the easiest method.
– Aibara
Jan 20 '14 at 2:45
I just tried the method. The mouse click does not change the cursor. Then as instructed, I put: echo (xterm-mouse-mode t) > ~/.emacs; The error information is: bash: syntax error near unexpected token `xterm-mouse-mode' (I use Ubuntu 16.04)
– user1914692
Aug 14 '16 at 16:27
add a comment |
Since there doesn't seem to be a way with gnome-terminal, this seems like the easiest method.
– Aibara
Jan 20 '14 at 2:45
I just tried the method. The mouse click does not change the cursor. Then as instructed, I put: echo (xterm-mouse-mode t) > ~/.emacs; The error information is: bash: syntax error near unexpected token `xterm-mouse-mode' (I use Ubuntu 16.04)
– user1914692
Aug 14 '16 at 16:27
Since there doesn't seem to be a way with gnome-terminal, this seems like the easiest method.
– Aibara
Jan 20 '14 at 2:45
Since there doesn't seem to be a way with gnome-terminal, this seems like the easiest method.
– Aibara
Jan 20 '14 at 2:45
I just tried the method. The mouse click does not change the cursor. Then as instructed, I put: echo (xterm-mouse-mode t) > ~/.emacs; The error information is: bash: syntax error near unexpected token `xterm-mouse-mode' (I use Ubuntu 16.04)
– user1914692
Aug 14 '16 at 16:27
I just tried the method. The mouse click does not change the cursor. Then as instructed, I put: echo (xterm-mouse-mode t) > ~/.emacs; The error information is: bash: syntax error near unexpected token `xterm-mouse-mode' (I use Ubuntu 16.04)
– user1914692
Aug 14 '16 at 16:27
add a comment |
The terminal itself can take mouse input. You can test this opening a text file with nano
and enabling mouse
(M-M) Mouse support enable/disable
(On my keyboard that's ESC+M.)
Then you can change the position of the cursor by clicking.
If you are asking about changing the position of cursor in the SHELL, there was a discussion in ubuntuforums mentioning gpm. There is also a duplicate of this question in stackoverflow with some alternatives proposed.
The question is about the shell, specifically moving the cusor position (since you can easily select text with the mouse, for instance, in gnome-terminal).
– Aibara
Jan 14 '14 at 19:53
why the downvote? The original question was a bit ambiguous.
– Eero Aaltonen
Jan 21 '14 at 9:11
add a comment |
The terminal itself can take mouse input. You can test this opening a text file with nano
and enabling mouse
(M-M) Mouse support enable/disable
(On my keyboard that's ESC+M.)
Then you can change the position of the cursor by clicking.
If you are asking about changing the position of cursor in the SHELL, there was a discussion in ubuntuforums mentioning gpm. There is also a duplicate of this question in stackoverflow with some alternatives proposed.
The question is about the shell, specifically moving the cusor position (since you can easily select text with the mouse, for instance, in gnome-terminal).
– Aibara
Jan 14 '14 at 19:53
why the downvote? The original question was a bit ambiguous.
– Eero Aaltonen
Jan 21 '14 at 9:11
add a comment |
The terminal itself can take mouse input. You can test this opening a text file with nano
and enabling mouse
(M-M) Mouse support enable/disable
(On my keyboard that's ESC+M.)
Then you can change the position of the cursor by clicking.
If you are asking about changing the position of cursor in the SHELL, there was a discussion in ubuntuforums mentioning gpm. There is also a duplicate of this question in stackoverflow with some alternatives proposed.
The terminal itself can take mouse input. You can test this opening a text file with nano
and enabling mouse
(M-M) Mouse support enable/disable
(On my keyboard that's ESC+M.)
Then you can change the position of the cursor by clicking.
If you are asking about changing the position of cursor in the SHELL, there was a discussion in ubuntuforums mentioning gpm. There is also a duplicate of this question in stackoverflow with some alternatives proposed.
edited May 23 '17 at 12:39
Community♦
1
1
answered Jan 14 '14 at 8:36
Eero AaltonenEero Aaltonen
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1,01121129
The question is about the shell, specifically moving the cusor position (since you can easily select text with the mouse, for instance, in gnome-terminal).
– Aibara
Jan 14 '14 at 19:53
why the downvote? The original question was a bit ambiguous.
– Eero Aaltonen
Jan 21 '14 at 9:11
add a comment |
The question is about the shell, specifically moving the cusor position (since you can easily select text with the mouse, for instance, in gnome-terminal).
– Aibara
Jan 14 '14 at 19:53
why the downvote? The original question was a bit ambiguous.
– Eero Aaltonen
Jan 21 '14 at 9:11
The question is about the shell, specifically moving the cusor position (since you can easily select text with the mouse, for instance, in gnome-terminal).
– Aibara
Jan 14 '14 at 19:53
The question is about the shell, specifically moving the cusor position (since you can easily select text with the mouse, for instance, in gnome-terminal).
– Aibara
Jan 14 '14 at 19:53
why the downvote? The original question was a bit ambiguous.
– Eero Aaltonen
Jan 21 '14 at 9:11
why the downvote? The original question was a bit ambiguous.
– Eero Aaltonen
Jan 21 '14 at 9:11
add a comment |
In vi mode (when the the command line behave as vi, enabled by set -o vi
) you can launch a full vi to edit the current line:
Pass in command mode with ESC
, then press v
. and in vi you should be able to use your mouse to move to the expect character.
I don't know if this kind of command exist for the emacs mode (set -o emacs
), the default one.
add a comment |
In vi mode (when the the command line behave as vi, enabled by set -o vi
) you can launch a full vi to edit the current line:
Pass in command mode with ESC
, then press v
. and in vi you should be able to use your mouse to move to the expect character.
I don't know if this kind of command exist for the emacs mode (set -o emacs
), the default one.
add a comment |
In vi mode (when the the command line behave as vi, enabled by set -o vi
) you can launch a full vi to edit the current line:
Pass in command mode with ESC
, then press v
. and in vi you should be able to use your mouse to move to the expect character.
I don't know if this kind of command exist for the emacs mode (set -o emacs
), the default one.
In vi mode (when the the command line behave as vi, enabled by set -o vi
) you can launch a full vi to edit the current line:
Pass in command mode with ESC
, then press v
. and in vi you should be able to use your mouse to move to the expect character.
I don't know if this kind of command exist for the emacs mode (set -o emacs
), the default one.
answered Jan 14 '14 at 12:18
NimlarNimlar
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echo -e "e[?1000;1006;1015h" # Enable mouse tracking
Script : I made a bash script to move bash readline cursor on mouse click on my github
Details : Read my answer in another post
New contributor
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echo -e "e[?1000;1006;1015h" # Enable mouse tracking
Script : I made a bash script to move bash readline cursor on mouse click on my github
Details : Read my answer in another post
New contributor
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echo -e "e[?1000;1006;1015h" # Enable mouse tracking
Script : I made a bash script to move bash readline cursor on mouse click on my github
Details : Read my answer in another post
New contributor
echo -e "e[?1000;1006;1015h" # Enable mouse tracking
Script : I made a bash script to move bash readline cursor on mouse click on my github
Details : Read my answer in another post
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Did you try Ctrl - left or Ctrl - right?
– user85164
Oct 16 '13 at 4:48
1
Thank. I knew it. I hope a more flexible move. I think the mouse is much more convenient. I find the python console in PyCharm is as friendly as an editor. But how about other terminals?
– user1914692
Oct 16 '13 at 5:27
1
I would love to know if this was possible with gnome-terminal. Apparently you can do so in OSX: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051091.
– Aibara
Jan 14 '14 at 6:24
For native terminal, you will probably have no luck. See the mouse section in the terminal howto of The Linux Documentation Project.
– Izzy
Jan 16 '14 at 21:58