Disable vim automatic visual mode on mouse select

disable_vim_auto_visual_on_mouse.txt

Disable vim automatic visual mode on mouse select

issue: :set mouse-=a
add to ~/.vimrc: set mouse-=a

my ~/.vimrc for preserving global defaults and only changing one option:

source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim
set mouse-=a

This way ends with text copied to clipboard with line numbers, Of course if you have one window vertically.
Instead I used to this option.
JUST HOLD SHIFT KEY DURING SELECTING TERMINAL TEXT TO BEHAVE LIKE set mouse-=a

This way ends with text copied to clipboard with line numbers, Of course if you have one window vertically.
Instead I used to this option.
JUST HOLD SHIFT KEY DURING SELECTING TERMINAL TEXT TO BEHAVE LIKE set mouse-=a

In MacOSX with Iterm2, you would use ALT key instead of SHIFT.

Ye who muck with 'vi' shall be anathema forever!

use the shift yourself, and return me as it was before. without fu "hotfix" echo 'set mouse -=a' >> ~/.vimrc

Thanks a lot, very annoying "feature".

use the shift yourself, and return me as it was before. without fu "hotfix" echo 'set mouse -=a' >> ~/.vimrc

Thanks a lot, very annoying "feature".

I was working with RHEL servers for 8 years and now with the news about widthrawing CentOS after it's been sold to IBM - I am setting up debian servers around. GOD was I furious with vim there.

So while looking through the ways of installing vim 2.7 instead of 2.8, I found this one:
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Installing-Neovim

Guess what:

alias vi='nvim'
alias vim='nvim'

No more pain!

This helped me instead:

set mouse=
set ttymouse=

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/55979801/445221

thanks 🐧

Thanks, whoever changed this setting almost changed me to prefer nano.

Thanks

Thanks. Was driving me crazy

Driving me crazy as well — Does one need to reboot in order for the root change to be accepted? Changed it, and I'm still in visual mode when attempting cpy/paste while using sudo.

In current editing session just use
:set mouse-=a
If you want it to persist, put it into .vimrc as descibed above. If you only put it in .vimrc it won't take affect until you restart vim

I found that on Debian Stable Branch, /usr/share/vim/vim82 was interfering, so I followed these instructions: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/551512/disabling-vim-visual-mode-in-etc-vim-vimrc-does-not-work, and all is well.

set mouse-=a worked for me, thumbs up!
I did have to add "syntax on" in my .vimrc, but then it all worked like a charm.

This has helped. Thanks

It still doesn't work as expected. If I change the parameter in /usr/share/vim/vim82/defaults.vim then it is removed after vim update. Changes to /etc/vim/vimrc don't work either. The only solution is to add parameters to ~ /.vimrc for each user. It blows my mind.

to not lose the defaults.vim just put this at the top of your ~/.vimrc

unlet! skip_defaults_vim
source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim

this will survive vim upgrades

It still doesn't work as expected. If I change the parameter in /usr/share/vim/vim82/defaults.vim then it is removed after vim update. Changes to /etc/vim/vimrc don't work either. The only solution is to add parameters to ~ /.vimrc for each user. It blows my mind.

If the set mouse= is not in ~/.vimrc, then you need another line for it: let skip_defaults_vim=1 in /etc/vim/vimrc.

This is the most annoying thing, there is no reason for this. Most useless thing, should not be default.

Thanks, you're the OG

If only this worked for IdeaVim. What a pain.

Thank you so much !! ^_^

This way ends with text copied to clipboard with line numbers, Of course if you have one window vertically. Instead I used to this option. JUST HOLD SHIFT KEY DURING SELECTING TERMINAL TEXT TO BEHAVE LIKE set mouse-=a

This only works in Xterm AFAIR

thank you so much :-)

This way ends with text copied to clipboard with line numbers, Of course if you have one window vertically. Instead I used to this option. JUST HOLD SHIFT KEY DURING SELECTING TERMINAL TEXT TO BEHAVE LIKE set mouse-=a

Thanks a lot, this is saving life!

This way ends with text copied to clipboard with line numbers, Of course if you have one window vertically.
Instead I used to this option.
JUST HOLD SHIFT KEY DURING SELECTING TERMINAL TEXT TO BEHAVE LIKE set mouse-=a

In MacOSX with Iterm2, you would use ALT key instead of SHIFT.

On Mac with iterm2, I had to hold down OPTION key.

None of this was working for me without skip_defaults_vim, which disables other things I wanted. But looking up defaults.vim
https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/6c1afa3d0bdfce3ac1197b00409ac1afa7cf368a/runtime/defaults.vim#L80-L81

... the intent of the vim authors is just type : and visual selection is disabled! That's a start.

then I noticed, near the top of the file, the recommended way to revert settings is :set option&. So if I use set mouse& instead of set mouse-=a now things work as described. VIM - Vi IMproved 9.0 (2022 Jun 28, compiled May 04 2023 10:24:44)

on debian 11 we're now using the following /etc/vim/vimrc.global to disable the mouse integration by default for all users:

unlet! skip_defaults_vim
source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim
let skip_defaults_vim=1
set mouse&

without @TheSpyder's hint, it didn't work with "set mouse=-a".. so thank you very much :D!

Thank you. The trick is to disable the mouse support for Vim. I achieved this by adding the following to the /etc/vim/vimrc file.
I had to add syntax on to enable syntax highlighting.

set mouse= 
syntax on