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> What is worse, I am terribly clumsy at the mouse. Say > I want to resize a window. There is a corner with three > buttons, one for hiding the window, one to enlarge it and > one to close it. Whenever I want to click either of them, > I run the risk of clicking the wrong one altogether! This > happens everywhere that there are a few buttons all > together, say, in the browser, when I want to select a tab > I often end up closing it! I hate that I have to drag the > pointer around in the touchpad, as it takes forever and > often lands in the wrong place, as I just mentioned.
I experience something similarly frustrating with terminal windows in my environment, as though someone went out of their way to turn what ought be a mostly mouse-free experience into hell.
I've yet to determine at what layer of code it's happening (because I've yet to string together search criteria that lead to reading others writing about the same thing), but http[s] URLS displayed in my terminal are "clickable", leading to a browser tab opening against them when clicking on them.
But that's a good thing, you retort, right?
No. It's not. I far more often than not simply want to copy/paste the URL in some other text-only context, and instead I often accidentally click (in order to get close enough to the start/end of the URL text) on such a URL, and then must suffer a focus going to a new browser tab attempting to display contant located by that URL.
ARGHGHGHHHGHGH!!!!
All I want to do is disable that, or maybe toggle its being enabled. But, again, I seem to be the only person who's ever lived with this problem -OR- words like 'terminal' and/or 'window' and/or 'hotlink', etc. aren't sufficiently specific for a search engine to bring me to discussion of such.
It just....
As for vim, I mis-press keys all the time, and thus am perpetually grateful for its single key-press undo.
> Sometimes I feel like going back to the days of being > interested in computers enough to stay focused and writing > scripts and code to perform interesting tasks. Maybe I > should, maybe I will, hard to tell.
In my experience, following through on something is inversely proportional to number of times saying one should/will/etc....
That's one thing I like about Emacs. The whole buffer of text is available for you to manipulate however you want; you can select and copy any portion of text therein. Unlike a terminal. Now with a terminal emulator you could use the pointer to select and copy text, a sub-optimal solution, mainly because, well, I would like to keep my hands on the keyboard at all times, and perhaps not always have I a mouse! Some of us like to stick to old-school virtual terminals, especially when we want to keep the noise of the web out!
tmux and screen I think allow you to navigate the buffer and idk, maybe they let you select text in it, I haven't really looked into that stuff. My own solution, the one I've wanted to adopt but I have never put myself to the task of it, is to have everything that would get printed to the screen saved and perhaps even parsed by default, so that I could select contents by referencing them through certain commands.... kind of like how the DOM works with websites. In fact, that's one of my um... "stashed" projects: a terminal based web browser that allows you to walk and selectively display parts of the document.
I should do that, oh I should. I've said it enough times already to know that should mostly means won't.