Hello, I always refrained from extrapolating feedback or a complaint about this issue but: It is now 3 years that i'm typing "set mouse=" every time I open a file with VIM on debian while swearing!
Was this the intended result after this change? This setting broke things and that's it, I wonder where the improvement has been and for who. This settings is unmanageable for any debian system since stretch, we have hundreds of servers and we never managed to push through any workaround for this, not even have resources to invest on such change. It doesn't seem there is any advantage and people is constantly swearing about this debian change every time they open VIM, not only me! every colleague or person working with debian is reporting the same problem and swearing about this change and why it went through. So I would like to gently ask to SERIOUSLY review the situation about this and EVALUATE AGAIN to go toward an upstream change to restore NORMAL USABILITY for 99% of the users and companies using debian systems. If after 3 years we are still typing "set mouse=" (every time I open a file with vim) ,like many other users do ,there must be a reason and really a big problem somewhere! to not even mention people falling back to CAT for copying the content of a file, or even NANO just because of this change.
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