On 2017-06-30, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote:
>
> Imagine my surprise when the usual X selection and clipboard
> techniques disappeared.
>
> Normal behavior:
>
> - X11
> - xterm or urxvt or gnome-terminal or whatever
> - copy text by selecting with mouse button 1
> - move over to some other text input field and
> paste with button 3
>
> except, vim stopped allowing the paste.
>
> Here's the change:
>
> /usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim
>
> now contains:
>
> " In many terminal emulators the mouse works just fine. By
> enabling it you
> " can position the cursor, Visually select and scroll with the
> mouse.
> if has('mouse')
> set mouse=a
> endif
>
> 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.
>
> -dsr-
>
>
Alternatively, hold down the shift key when selecting text. The text is
then copied to the X11 clipboard as before.
--
Liam
