On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 02:10:08AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > for me the default of 'set mouse=a' is a misfeature, so I want to > disable it globally (my mouse usage ends after marking + > middle-click pasting of text in the terminal, that works fine > without pressing shift). > > Unfortunately 'set mouse=' does not work in /etc/vim/vimrc.local, it is > just ignored. Other options work there. > But it works if (even an empty) ~/.vimrc does exist.
Please see NEWS.Debian.gz and /etc/vim/vimrc which have similarly worded descriptions of this: " Vim will load $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim if the user does not have a vimrc. " This happens after /etc/vim/vimrc(.local) are loaded, so it will override " any settings in these files. " If you don't want that to happen, uncomment the below line to prevent " defaults.vim from being loaded. " let g:skip_defaults_vim = 1 Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/91BF BF4D 6956 BD5D F7B7 2D23 DFE6 91AE 331B A3DB
