I am also annoyed by the new default of mouse=a, but the proposed workaround of 'touch ~/.vimrc' isn't enough for a couple reasons:
1) I want to be able to turn it off system wide, not just per user 2) By creating an empty .vimrc I'm potentially losing out on upstream defaults that I _do_ want. Is there another way to accomplish those things? Adding 'set mouse=' to /etc/vim/vimrc doesn't seem to work. -- Matt Taggart tagg...@debian.org