Ghostty nightly now supports the `click_events` extension introduced by Kitty and supported by Fish. If you're using Fish 4.1+, you can click (no modifiers!) anywhere at a prompt to move the mouse. I believe Ghostty is the first to support this extension outside of Kitty.

As far as as I can find, the only shell to support this is Fish (4.1+) and the only terminal to support this previously is Kitty. It'd be great for more of both ecosystems to support this.

Other terminals do support moving the cursor with the mouse to some extent (Ghostty included since 1.0), but do so by another, more fragile mechanism: when you click, it just best-effort calculates a number of synthetic left arrow key inputs to pretend to move your cursor. This is super fragile because it can't take into account shell behaviors particularly around indention, multi-line, and if you're not at a prompt at all...

The `click_events` extension allows Ghostty to know when you're at a prompt line, and works by encoding a mouse click event while at a prompt line to the shell. The shell then takes over and handles all the logic of moving the cursor, which makes the most sense!

PR: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10536

Bit of a long shot, would anyone on here know how to get in touch with anyone from the Finnish demoscene group Future Crew, in particular Psi (Sami Tammilehto)? Are any on them on fedi? They must be in their 50's now.

I'd like to ask if he still has the Scream Tracker 3 source code, and if he would consider releasing it... It's such an important part of computing and music history. It deserves preservation.

Update: hearsay is that Psi is not interested in releasing the sources. See replies.

#demoscene #futurecrew #screamtracker3