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Love: I think it's the best way to do things without GUI Hate: I cant use mouse for copy command or edit a line
by daniel12fsp 9y ago
Love: I think it's the best way to do things without GUI
Hate: I cant use mouse for copy command or edit a line
- swiley 9y agoThat would only need a modification to the GNU readline library (if it doesn't already support it.)
- yoodenvranx 9y agoYes, changing the cursor position with the mouse while typing a command would be handy in some situations!
- neilsimp1 9y agoI wanted to say this as well. Maybe it's blasphemy to want better mouse support in a keyboard-driven environment, but dammit if it wouldn't be handy to just click to a position in the line you're typing instead of slowly crawling your way there with arrow keys.
- yoodenvranx 9y ago> Maybe it's blasphemy No, it is not blasphemy! I often find myself copying text from some non-keyboard driven program into the command line and having the ability to change the position of the text cursor in the command line with the mouse would be nicer and faster because my hand is already on the mouse. Pointing with the mouse to a specific location in the middle of a string is always faster than doing the same thing with the keyboard (if your hand is already on the mouse) My favorite example is htop: Clicking on a random column header with the mouse feels easier and faster than doing the same thing with pure keyboard navigation. > slowly crawling your way there with arrow keys. In case you did not know yet: Try using ctrl + arrow keys (or ctrl + b/f) to jump over whole words. It's still not ideal but at least it is faster than just arrow keys.