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Allow alt+click / option+click in the MATLAB terminal to navigate
In other terminals like bash it is normal that one can alt+click (option+click on Mac) to navigate around in the current terminal line.
At least for me this is not possible with the MATLAB terminal in VS Code. This makes interactive sessions a lot harder as navigating is limited to left and right arrows, one character at a time.
On a related note, common commands such as strg+a / control+a and strg+e / control+e to jump to the beginning or end of the line in the terminal are also not available.
Is this behaviour reproducible for others? Is this maybe even a bug?
I just noticed, that when I open a different shell in VS Code, like zsh, then execute
matlab -nodesktop -nosplash
and continue from there, I do get the ability to navigate via alt+click / option+click.
Just an interesting observation.
Nevermind, it seems more like a bug now. I noticed that the MATLAB terminal is mostly not working at all. Turning a different shell into a MATLAB one by executing "matlab -nodesktop -nosplash" works fine and then I have none of the problems mentioned above.
I can't reliable reproduce it and give useful diagnostic info, so I am gonna close this issue for now.
Reopening this issue as I can confirm that this functionality is not available in the MATLAB Terminal and this feature is something we would like to consider adding to the MATLAB terminal in a future release.
Running MATLAB directly in a different shell is unrelated to the MATLAB terminal or this extension as it has none of the integrations with VS Code present.
