Vim enters into visual mode on selecting text after El Capitan update

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.