alacritty/alacritty

Allow to specify button to use in hints.mouse

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#8,486 opened on Feb 17, 2025

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Description

Should be relatively simple, just additional button = field with default to Left, so it's not a breaking change.

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Research direction
Examine the existing mouse hint configuration parsing in alacritty/src/config/ and add a new `button` field with default `Left`. Follow the pattern of existing optional fields.
Tech stack
rust
Domain
backend
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Feature
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2
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1-3 hours
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Active
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Clear
Prerequisites
Rust
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70