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Issue is what the title says. Earlier I used to copy text from text files open in vim simply by selecting text and doing Ctrl + C. But now it puts me into visual mode, thus not allowing to copy the text. Its really annoying. Anybody knows any fix for this.
Thanks.
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Visual Block Mode of Vim allows us to perform different operations like delete, copy-paste, i.e., yanked and put, etc. To enable the Visual block mode in Vim, you have to try out the “Ctrl+V” command within the normal mode. You can see that the new. txt file has been opened in the Visual Block mode.
If you want ":set mouse=a" to work over SSH, just use the '-X' option when using SSH. If using vim in xterm and having set mouse=a, you will notice mouse middle-click paste no longer seems to work. Instead use Shift+middle-click to paste X selection.
Press v to begin character-based visual selection, or V to select whole lines, or Ctrl-v or Ctrl-q to select a block. Move the cursor to the end of the text to be cut/copied.
You probably have the mouse mode active. You can turn it off with:
:set mouse=
And turn it back on with
:set mouse=a
If you are using iTerm, you can leave mouse mode on all the time if you want, and hold Option when you want to select without using visual mode. I am not aware of a way to do that in OS X Terminal.
Update (from Younes in comments): For Terminal.app on El Capitan, press the Fn key to bypass the mouse mode. See this question for more.
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