Clicking the mouse doesn't change the jump list?

[Matt Wozniski]

Is it intentional that moving the cursor by clicking the mouse doesn't
modify the jumplist? It seems strange that you can't jump back to
where you were before clicking with `` for instance. You can get
around it with a mapping like

noremap <LeftMouse> m'<LeftMouse>

but that seems like it shouldn't be necessary...

~Matt

[Tony Mechelynck]

I'm surprised that nobody replied to this post in almost two months.

You cannot click the mouse outside the window, so the maximum distance
between the "old" and "new" cursor positions for that window when you
jump by clicking the mouse is one window height. I suppose that this
means clicking the mouse does not qualify as a "long jump".

The list of "jump commands" is a closed set, enumerated under ":help
jump-motions"; only keyboard actions are included. The inclusion of L M
H but not <LeftMouse>, all of which are described together at the very
end of motion.txt, and none of which moves by more than one window
height, seems illogical to me too.

Best regards,
Tony.
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