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tayo42 on Dec 10, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program...

Yeah that's interesting. I didn't think handling mouse clicks was possible. Wonder how it's done.

joombaga on Dec 10, 2023 | [–]

A lot of popular terminal apps support mouse clicks. Off the top of my head vim, emacs, htop, and links2 all have mouse support.

eichin on Dec 10, 2023 | [–]

for most xterm-compatible terminals, you send an escape sequence that enables mouse tracking, and then mouse clicks turn into escape sequences.

tayo42 on Dec 10, 2023 | [–]

That's cool! Thanks

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