Imagine my surprise when the usual X selection and clipboard
techniques disappeared.
Normal behavior:
- X11
- xterm or urxvt or gnome-terminal or whatever
- copy text by selecting with mouse button 1
- move over to some other text input field and
paste with button 3
except, vim stopped allowing the paste.
Here's the change:
/usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim
now contains:
" In many terminal emulators the mouse works just fine. By
enabling it you
" can position the cursor, Visually select and scroll with the
mouse.
if has('mouse')
set mouse=a
endif
That's nice. It doesn't actually work for the X cut and paste
mechanism that I rely on, and it turns out that adding this
to my .vimrc:
set mouse=off
or
set mouse=""
does not work.
Instead you need to go to that defaults file and comment out
the offending stanza. Use " as your beginning of line comment
character.
-dsr-
