Vim

robertmarkbram · 11-21-2003, 09:52 PM

Hi All!

I have been trying to enable select mode in vim so that I can use the mouse to select text and immediately over-write the selected text. From my reading of the vim manual, I thought this is what I need in my .vimrc file:

set selectmode+=mouse
set mouse=v

Naturally this is not working (would I be posting otherwise!!??)..

Can anyone tell me what I should do to fix it??

Any advice most appreciated!

Rob

robertmarkbram · 12-02-2003, 06:42 PM

Well, here is what I have found so far..

Using Konsole, I can set keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste (I recommend Alt+c and Alt+v respectively). Since you can usually use a mouse to select regions of text, you can then use the copy and paste shortcuts to insert copied text into vim. This effectively circumscribes vim by using Konsole functionality, so choose your xterm etc carefully.

cetialphav · 12-02-2003, 08:23 PM

Try setting mouse=a instead of mouse=v. That works for me.