Term — Tap to move the cursor, double-tap to select

Tap where the typo is

You recalled a long command with ↑, or typed one out, and there is a mistake near the middle. Tap the character and the cursor goes there. Fix it, press Enter.

A shell prompt with the command git commit -m "fix the typo in the midle of this message" wrapped onto a second line; the cursor is at the very end — **Before** — “midle” is missing a letter, and the line has wrapped: “mi” ends the first row, “dle” starts the second. The cursor is at the end.

The same command; the cursor now sits on the d at the start of the second row — **One tap on the “d”** — the cursor is there, on the wrapped half of the line.

The command now reads fix the typo in the middle of this message — **Type the missing “d”** — “middle”. Nothing else in the command moved.

Three more places to tap:

After the end of the command — the cursor goes to the end. Handy after a fix in the middle, when you want to add more.
On the prompt itself (user@host:~$) — the cursor goes to the start of what you typed.
On a Chinese character — it lands on that character. A wide character counts as one, not two.

It works over SSH and mosh alike.

Double-tap selects the whole thing

Double-tap a word to select it, then Copy. What changed is what counts as one word. Term now takes the whole of the things you actually copy from a terminal:

a path — /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.sources
an address with a port — 0.0.0.0:8000, db.internal:5432, [::1]:22
a file and line from a compiler or a stack trace — src/main.rs:42:7
a branch, image or tag — origin/main, nginx:1.27
a URL, an email address, a UUID, a MAC address, a time like 12:30:05

A path that wrapped onto the next line comes out whole too.

Output of ss -tln. The address 0.0.0.0:8000 is selected with a grip at each end, and a menu with Copy, Paste, Select all and Cancel sits above it — **One double-tap on `0.0.0.0:8000`.** Address and port in one selection, with the grips at either end if you want to adjust it.

The edges are trimmed the way you would want. A path at the end of a sentence leaves the full stop behind, brackets and quotes around it stay out, and so does the colon after user@host in your prompt — double-tap the host name and you get the host name.

Tapping a link once still opens it, as before — see Tapping links.

When a tap does not move the cursor

Tap-to-move is for the command line at a shell prompt — bash, zsh, fish, or a program’s own one-line input. A few places it stays out of the way:

Full-screen programs — vim, less, top. Taps there belong to the program, and many of them handle touches themselves. tmux and screen count as full-screen too: inside them a tap does not move the cursor.
When you have scrolled up into history. Scroll back down first.
Emoji with a skin tone or other modifier (👍🏽, family emoji). The shell and Term count their width differently, so a tap after one can land a character or two off. Chinese is fine.

If you would rather move without taking your finger off the keyboard, slide across it — both work, pick whichever is closer.