My god, a mouse click which actually does something in a Terminal prompt! What a concept.

/s

But seriously though, if I could just ask for two things in emacs:

1. Enable mouse mode by default (Yes -- I love UNIX too, but this is ridiculous)

2. Give up on "yanking" and "killing" with only the keyboard and allow for text selection with the mouse. OP touches on this a bit, but why anyone should have to write their own functions to accomplish it is a bad sign.

Because I know I will get yelled at for this - especially #2 - is this limitation due to the fact that emacs (and I guess, vi) act like a pager with distinct modes of operation? And, yes I know GUI versions exist, but I shouldn't have to switch to something else just because the canonical implementation is incomplete.

/rant