Re: recent change to vim defaults?

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:18:39 +0800
On 19/01/2017 1:37 AM, 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.

actually I never saw one about mouse=a however I did see and try 
mouse=v which didn't work for me.

I have now tried mouse=a and am happy to say that that does what I need.
thanks!

>
> # Adam
>
>
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