On 9 December 2016 at 04:21, Christopher <ctubbsii@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 8:24 AM Dario Lesca <d.lesca@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Il giorno gio, 08/12/2016 alle 14.53 +0200, Ahmad Samir ha scritto: >> > To revert that change I created a ~/.vimrc (even an empty one works) >> > and for good measure added this line to it: >> > set mouse= >> > >> >> Thank, this command: >> >> $ echo 'set mouse=' >> ~/.vimrc >> >> disable this new "feature" and restore the previous behavior. >> >> Another (annoying) thing to do on all new system witch I install and >> use. >> >> Probably it would be better that this feature was disabled by default >> in a next update. >> >> What is your opinion? >> > > > This is very surprising behavior that I saw today. I spent quite a bit of > time going through my .vimrc file to try to find which setting "fixed" the > problem. Apparently, an empty file would have done the trick... such a waste > of time. :) > > A more intuitive behavior would be for the user's settings to be merged with > the defaults. Creating an .vimrc to change a whitespace option, and seeing > that has an effect on mouse behavior is very strange. > For merging the settings, have a look at https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/5162822914372fc916a93f85848c0c82209e7cec/runtime/doc/starting.txt#L1018 (There's a local copy of that file at /usr/share/vim/vim80/doc/starting.txt). -- Ahmad Samir _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
