Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 07:54:58 -0400 From: Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: editors/vim visual mode Message-ID: <20220811075458.5ff8cf3ed9b7b1c2107936e3@3dresearch.com>
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Hello, Over the years I have used what used to be vim-console in a rather basic and lazy/easy way: from my computer running FreeBSD 13.0-STABLE and LXDE desktop I ssh to a server running FreeBSD 11, 12, or 13 and edit files with copy/paste. The lazy/easy part is to copy with mouse left button double-click and paste with the middle button. On one of these computers with vim-8.2.5052 installed, when I start vim the mouse pointer changes from "I" to arrow and double-clicking on a word automatically enters VISUAL mode. The above described lazy/easy copy/pasting doesn't work. After much searching I came across this short post: https://medium.com/@desfocado/how-to-disable-visual-mode-on-mouse-select-for-vim-dd3b2632a1ae which advises to set in .vimrc: set mouse-=a This setting restores the expected/desired "old" behavior. The post made by Miguel David (thank you!) is dated Sep 7, 2018. I then checked the versions of vim installed (from ports) on some of my FreeBSD computers, which are: vim-console-8.2.2569 vim-console-8.2.2918 vim-console-8.2.3081 vim-8.2.3394 vim-8.2.3394_1 All of the above work without the setting "set mouse-=a" and all of them must have been installed not before March 4, 2021. Now I have upgraded vim-8.2.5052 to vim-9.0.0129. It displays the same behavior as vim-8.2.5052 did. -- Janos Dohanics
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