Re: recent change to vim defaults?

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:37:32AM -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> > On 18 Jan, 2017, at 10:35, Julian Elischer <julian_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On 17/01/2017 1:23 AM, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> >>> On 16 Jan, 2017, at 9:25, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 12:03:08AM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >>>> I noticed that suddenly vim is grabbing mouse movements, which makes life
> >>>> really hard.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Was there a specific revision that brought in this change, and can it be
> >>>> removed?
> >>> This change appeared in one of the last patchset of vim 7.4 and was one of the
> >>> "features" of the vim 8.0 release.
> >>> 
> >>> I do agree this is just totally painful :(
> >>> 
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Bapt
> >> One of the things that I inherited with the Vim port was the DEFAULT_VIMRC option (which installs /usr/ports/editors/vim/files/vimrc), and I haven't touched it.
> >> 
> >> I have moused disabled in all my boxes so I have no idea about bad mouse behaviour in Vim. If there is a bad default that is causing grief, let's just fix it in that default vimrc.
> >> 
> >> I'm not really understanding what the unexpected behaviour is so I can't make an intelligent recommendation myself, but I'll go with whatever you folks suggest.
> >> 
> >> # Adam
> > I'm in iterm on my mac.
> > I ssh to a freebsd machine
> > I use vim on a file.
> > I used to be able to use the mouse on my mac to copy a few lines into the cut buffer.. slide-shift-click etc..
> > now suddenly if I try highlight some code in vim to copy it vim drags stuff around, scrolls up and down, deletes stuff and generally makes a mess.
> > if click, instead of starting a copy zone it grabs some of the text.
> > 
> > basically it makes hte mouse useless.
> > I can;t copy and paste from a file I'm ediitng. I end up having to exit vim and do it in vi.
> 
> There have been a number of recommendations in this thread for you, Julian, including "set mouse=a" and "set mouse=v". Test some of them out and let me know what works for you.

set mouse=
(with nothing) brings back the original behaviour

Bapt