On 8 December 2016 at 12:27, Dario Lesca <d.lesca@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > After last update of vim, from 7.x to 8.x I have found an unwanted and > annoying behavior. > > If open some file with vim in gnome-terminal and select some text, vim > goto in visual mode and fast copy/paste (select and click with middle > mouse button) do not work anymore. > > This behavior also do not allow anymore to select some text of file > opened with vim and copy it with right click. > > If I use "vim -C" this "feature" is disable, bur I do not know what is > also disable with '-C' option. > > I think this is a bug, I must fill a bugzilla? > > Thanks > It looks like a new change in vim-8*; now when no ~/.vimrc file is found the defaults.vim (/usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim) script is used; which sets 'mouse=a' hence this new mouse selection behaviour. To revert that change I created a ~/.vimrc (even an empty one works) and for good measure added this line to it: set mouse= -- Ahmad Samir _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx