On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 10:36:52AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > - move over to some other text input field and > paste with button 3
You mean button 2. > except, vim stopped allowing the paste. > > Here's the change: > > /usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim Generally speaking, yeah, that OS level defaults file can cause problems. Lots of changes have occurred there. The good news is that it's ignored if you have your own ~/.vimrc file. So, just create a ~/.vimrc file with something in it, and you should be all set. > 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. This has not been my experience at all. When I have a ~/.vimrc file, vim doesn't read the system level default file, and copy/pasting is working normally for me. If I move my ~/.vimrc file aside, then I get colorized file contents, and pasting where the mouse cursor is instead of where the terminal's cursor is... all kinds of rubbish that I would never, ever want.
