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

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 

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, it's working :)

For anyone trying to figure it out on Debian 12 after moving from CentOS, here is what you can do by combining all above information and checking what /etc/vim/vimrc is doing:

• create /etc/vim/vimrc.local with following content:

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

In this way, visual mode on mouse select will be disabled but default configuration still loaded and this config will survive vim upgrade.

still a life safer in year 2025.
Thank you.
Happen in wsl debian too.

If only this worked for IdeaVim. What a pain.
@ixtk

it works like this:

set selectmode=mouse,ideaSelection,

See more info here : https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim/blob/master/doc/set-commands.md

Thank you