Fixing vim
Revision as of 14:38, 3 January 2022 by Bart (talk | contribs) (Created page with "= VIM (& fixing it on Debian) = (as installed on Debian) has mouse weirdness. Selecting text with the mouse automatically enters '''visual mode'''. This prevents useful things like using the mouse to copy/paste while editing in the terminal. ('''Visual Mode''' is stupid...) ==== Solution ==== Either enter: *<code>:set mouse-=a</code> during an editing session, or even better, put it (without the leading colon) in your <code>~/.vimrc</code> file. (create the <code>.vim...")
VIM (& fixing it on Debian)
(as installed on Debian) has mouse weirdness. Selecting text with the mouse automatically enters visual mode. This prevents useful things like using the mouse to copy/paste while editing in the terminal. (Visual Mode is stupid...)
Solution
Either enter:
:set mouse-=a
during an editing session, or even better, put it (without the leading colon) in your ~/.vimrc file. (create the .vimrc file if it's not already there...)
vim ~/.vimrc
set mouse-=a
If you tend to use vim via sudo a lot... (duh... Who doesn't?)
sudo vim ~root/.vimrc
Sadly, this seems to turn off the colour syntax hilighting.
But!
add
syntax on
to the .vimrc files & it's back.