Granular control over mouse click behavior in interactive menus (AskUserQuestion, select prompts) #75599

Feature request

Since v2.1.181, clicking an option in select menus (permission prompts, /model, /config, AskUserQuestion dialogs, etc.) in fullscreen mode immediately selects/confirms it. This is a nice addition for some workflows, but there's no way to opt out of just this behavior without losing other mouse functionality.

The only existing controls are all-or-nothing:

• CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MOUSE — disables all mouse tracking (also disables scroll, hover, everything).
• CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MOUSE_CLICKS — disables click/drag/hover entirely, which also breaks clicking links and text-drag-selection inside fullscreen rendering.

The problem

I want to keep:

• Clicking links to open them
• Mouse drag text selection

But disable:

• Click-to-select on interactive menu options (permission prompts, /model, /config, AskUserQuestion), since accidental clicks near an option now confirm/select it unintentionally.

There's currently no combination of settings/env vars that achieves this — it's either "clicks do everything" or "clicks do nothing."

Suggested solution

A more granular env var / setting, e.g. CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MENU_CLICK_SELECT=1, that disables only the click-to-select behavior on interactive select menus while leaving link-opening and text selection/drag untouched.

Environment

• Claude Code CLI, terminal usage, fullscreen rendering mode