How to move the blinking cursor with the mouse in nano editor?

I am writing a text file through the terminal using nano; everytime I need to select a position of a certain line of my text I can't help but scrolling all the lines moving the blinking cursor using the keyboard arrows; is there a way to avoid this and just use the mouse to directly select where I want the cursor to be?

Solution 1:

You can start nano with the -m (--mouse) option. From man nano

   -m (--mouse)
          Enable  mouse  support,  if  available  for  your system.  When
          enabled, mouse clicks can be used to place the cursor, set  the
          mark  (with  a double click), and execute shortcuts.  The mouse
          will work in the X Window System, and on the console  when  gpm
          is running.

Solution 2:

Add this to your ~/.nanorc file

set mouse

This will cause the mouse to work every time you open nano

(source The GNU nanorc documentation)

Solution 3:

This works in Ubuntu: hold Esc and press M while using nano, it'll enable mouse support.

Solution 4:

I think I understand that you want to go to a specific line and a specific character in that line, yes? Without moving the cursor manually through the entire file.

In nano:

If you hit Ctrl+_ (that's Control Shift -, on my keyboard), it will prompt you to enter a line and column number.