> 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. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw_at_adamw.org https://www.adamw.orgReceived on Wed Jan 18 2017 - 16:37:37 UTC
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