The principal reason I switched back, many years ago, to vim in a terminal was that you could NOT paste text by highlighting with the mouse. I had been using some text editor on a Mac, and there was a keyboard shortcut--I never figured out what it was--that I would accidentally hit that had the effect of highlighting all text from the cursor to the end of the document. So when you're typing quickly and do this, the next keystroke erases the rest of your document. Incredibly annoying! The standard vim setup, where you can highlight text to paste in another window without worrying about deleting it, is far superior. > Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 15:04:42 +0300 > From: Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Stretch vim doesnt cut and paste > > Hi. > > On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 13:56:15 +0200 > Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> wrote: > > > Hi there > > > > > > After a upgrade from jessie to stretch I can't use the mouse to cut and > > paste in vim. > > nvi works, nano works. > > As quick fix I removed xxd and installed the jessie version of vim, > > vim-common and vim-runtime. This does work. > > A known problem. Apparently upstream thought (and Debian maintainer > followed) that it would be good idea to enable so-called 'mouse support' > in vim. As a result X cutbuffer ceased to function in vim. > They also enabled 'incremental search' by default too, which is > annoying to say the least. > > It took me some time to figure a way to disable these 'innovations' > systemwide, but I got it: > > echo let g:skip_defaults_vim = 1 >> /etc/vim/vimrc.local > > Reco
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