Terminal move cursor with mouse in any way?

Question

Is there any way at all to use the mouse cursor to move the cursor in terminal, like click where you want it and press a key to move it there?

This is one of the most annoying things I've ever found using the terminal

I know Ctrl+A will move to the beginning of the line but sometimes these commands are so long

lhf · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-30T10:56:21.437

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Try option-click, that is, click with option pressed.

This works on the command line and also in screen editors, such as vi and nano.

option-click just sends the appropriate escape sequences to move the cursor to anywhere in the terminal screen. (To see this working, try it with cat.)

edited May 30 '12 at 10:56

answered May 30 '12 at 10:33

lhf

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Didn't know that, wonder if there is a way to make this work in iTerm. – Gerry May 30 '12 at 10:42
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@Gerry, ah, finally a feature that Terminal has that iTerm hasn't! – lhf May 30 '12 at 10:58
@Gerry, see Option + click in iTerm. – lhf May 30 '12 at 14:02
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This doesn't seem to work for me? Im holding the option button and then clicking on a specific position but instead of taking me to that position it will load the previously ran command!? Im using yosemite and a 2015 macbook pro. – James111 Aug 26 '15 at 01:23

Terminal move cursor with mouse in any way?

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