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Is it possible to use vim with the mouse? If so, how?
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Mouse reporting is enabled in an app, such as Vim, that runs in a Terminal window. In general, mouse reporting is not enabled in apps by default. For example, to enable mouse reporting in Vim, you need to add a set mouse=a command to your ~/.
Its really a matter of preference. I sometimes use the mouse, but I find that it is much more efficient to not have to move my hands. If you spend a lot of time in vim, you may want to start learning the keyboard shortcuts and moving around using "hjkl" instead of the arrow keys. It saves you a lot of time.
You can use :set mouse& in the vim command line to enable copy/paste of text selected using the mouse. You can then simply use the middle mouse button or shift insert to paste it.
":set mouse=a" is used to enable mouse scrolling/selection.
You can enable the mouse with :set mouse=a (The letter 'a' means enable it in all modes)
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With GVim, you can select text and move the cursor, and select menu options with the mouse. Copy and paste, by right-clicking etc... But I guess this misses the point of using VIM.
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You can map certain actions to mouse left click and right click. And there are plenty of already mapped actions to work with ctags and other things.
:help mouse-using
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