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

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