Passive Mouse Tracking & Text Selection Tracking VT extensions.
Hey,
I am not sure how active this forum is now meant to be, but I have put some thoughts on a problem that has not been actually solved so far and already gathered some feedback from at least a few people (jerch, textshell, LeoNerd) and we finally came up with something that we think might be useful to at least the problem I am mainly addressing here: being able to use the mouse more prominently in the shell prompt.
- https://github.com/contour-terminal/vt-extensions/blob/master/passive-mouse-tracking.md
- https://github.com/contour-terminal/vt-extensions/blob/master/text-selection-tracking.md (this came out as a consequence after some discussions)
I have merged my implementation PR that PoC implements both VT extensions already - but flagged as EXPERIMENTAL, such that TUI/CLI devs might play around with it to gather some initial experience. In case anyone of you is interested, I'd be glad to hear some feedback.
Best regards, Christian Parpart.