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Date:      Wed, 18 Jan 2017 10:37:32 -0700
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, "ports@FreeBSD.org" <ports@freebsd.org>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: recent change to vim defaults?
Message-ID:  <37A99792-9E8E-4505-AA63-5E619D20DF36@adamw.org>
In-Reply-To: <3008e8e4-2386-2bcb-b779-f8e2125c6f63@freebsd.org>
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> On 18 Jan, 2017, at 10:35, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> On 17/01/2017 1:23 AM, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>>> On 16 Jan, 2017, at 9:25, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> =
wrote:
>>>=20
>>> 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.
>>>>=20
>>>> 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.
>>>=20
>>> I do agree this is just totally painful :(
>>>=20
>>> 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.
>>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
>> # 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.
>=20
> 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=3Da" and "set mouse=3Dv". Test some of them =
out and let me know what works for you.

# Adam


--=20
Adam Weinberger
adamw@adamw.org
https://www.adamw.org





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