Option click to position terminal cursor

Mar 10, '02 11:47:30PM

Contributed by: JohnnyMnemonic

I don't know how I missed this before. As a new Unix user, I often don't quite type terminal instructions correctly on the first attempt. Usually, I would "up arrow" to retrieve the last command, and then backwards cursor through the command--but if the filepaths were long, I might have to go through several lines of text to correct just one or two characters of typo. The terminal being the terminal, it wouldn't respond to positioning the cursor with the mouse--or so I thought.

Well, in the terminal preferences, under the last option "Emulation", you can turn on "option click to position cursor." Which allows one to 'option click' in any command and have the cursor positioned under the mouse pointer. Particularly useful in pico, so you don't have to scroll through the whole config file.

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