How to jump to a location using mouse on iTerm/terminal?

I work on a terminal most of the time.

Is there an application / plugin over iTerm or any other terminal like application using which I can control the cursor location of my terminal using a mouse ?

Solution 1:

At least in Terminal.app you can hold down option while clicking to jump within your current line (that actually means just the line, so if your current prompt is so long that it wraps to a second line of input you'll have to option-click to the beginning of the "second" line and then hop with the arrow keys to the "first" line where you can option-click again.)

Solution 2:

It's quite a time since this question came up and I did already mention the below on this platform in Option-click in iTerm and the issue tracker of iTerm2 but maybe it's of help for one or the other:

Hi, just wanted to let you know that I implemented that feature in iTerm2. It's not yet in the official iTerm2 repo but if you'd like to give it a go, you can find it at github.

Since it's tested only by me consider it not-stable. I did test it with bash, vi and emacs and did my best to resemble Terminal.app behavior.

There's a precompiled binary on github too iTerm_v1.0.0.20120312.git-b919985b.zip (for i386/x86_64/ppc).

Of course any feedback is welcome.

Solution 3:

In iTerm2 you hold down alt (left or right) and click to move the cursor to any position on any line.

Solution 4:

The keyboard is often your best friend. In a default configuration, your shell controls much of how you navigate around the command prompt.

Option + b goes back a word (the cursor will end up at the first letter of the previous word).

Option + f goes forward a word (the cursor will be at the non-letter character AFTER the next word).

Shift + Fn + Left Arrow (←) will put the cursor at the very start of the line. (Ctrl + a will also do this.)

Shift + Fn + Right Arrow (→) will put the cursor at the very end of the line. (Ctrl + e will also do this.)

So if I have a long command, for example:

$ rsync -avz --progress ~/Sites/Development/My/Project web@server:/deployment/output/area

And I start hitting Option + b, the cursor will stop on the a in area, the o in output, the d in deployment, etc.

If I go to the start of the line, and start hitting Option + f, the cursor will stop at the space after rsync, the space after avz, the space after progress, the / after Sites, etc.