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If you're on Apple iTerm solves most of the problems outlined in this blog post. Option+click moves cursor wherever you want, cmd+click on any url or path to op

• thiht 4y ago
  > Option+click moves cursor wherever you want So it doesn't solve the problem then. The problem is that terminal input doesn't respect[1] the other conventions we're used to. I've used iTerm for... 5 years now? and had no idea option+click was a thing. I even had to enable a non default keybinding preset (something named like "natural keybindings something") to get the basic option+left/right arrows to move the cursor word by word. I like iTerm, but a more natural prompt option would sure be appreciated. Warp may not be the solution because of dark patterns but there are no reasons to keep terminal input stuck in the past, they're onto something. Just the ability to consider inputs and outputs as more than just text is great: I can actually copy a whole output without having to select the characters and being careful not to go to far/not far enough, or getting stuck because the output was bigger than my configured scrollback. You could also get true output separation between stderr and stdout. [1]: yes I know it's technically the other way around, no I don't care
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  • bombolo 4y ago
    That's because the shell can actually use the mouse, so overriding that would break a number of things.