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Re: Stretch vim doesnt cut and paste



On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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

Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, uh? YMMV but I find that a lot of
those changes are good. If you are annoyed by the incremental search,
simply disable it by adding

set noic

in ~/.vimrc.

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