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Disable mouse support in TerminalUI

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by locating the TerminalUI entry point and its mouse-support handling. Determine how mouse support is activated and where an opt-out can be exposed. Done means users can disable mouse support when it interferes with terminal text selection, without changing the default behavior.

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Description

There are cases where mouse support should not be active as it will generally speaking hijack some things and is pointless if mouse if not needed. One case i.e. is that at least in some terminals you can't select text anymore.

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