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Hi.
I use various linux distros - gentoo, suse, ubuntu, fedora and (obviously) arch
I am slowly coming to the decision that Arch is the distro for me and have installed it on my work desktop also.
However there is one major issue I am having with Arch linux.
vim seems pretty much completely unusable in arch linux, not in the way that it is in Debian (i.e the strange arrow keys until you apt-get install vim-enchanced)
Its much worse, I am not able to paste into vim at all ... When pressing middle button to paste the buffer is says - nothing in register.
Also (annoyingly) I am unable to right click and paste into konsole (only when using vim) - instead it gives the message ' (insert) VISUAL '
This occurs from KDE4 and LXDE so it unlikely to be the desktop settings.
I do not have vi pasting issues with any other distro.
Can anyone help me paste ?
Regards
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vim seems pretty much completely unusable in arch linux, not in the way that it is in Debian (i.e the strange arrow keys until you apt-get install vim-enchanced)
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unusable? this is the first time i heard that in Arch.. Anyway I am using vi. And I don't see any problem with it.
To paste from the mouse, press shift and center click.
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You can turn off that visual function in your /etc/vimrc. look for where it says set mouse=a and change it to set mouse-=a.
I think everyone hates that behavior -- I know I do. It should be disabled by default, imo.
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yossarianuk wrote:vim seems pretty much completely unusable in arch linux, not in the way that it is in Debian (i.e the strange arrow keys until you apt-get install vim-enchanced)
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unusable? this is the first time i heard that in Arch.. Anyway I am using vi. And I don't see any problem with it.
To paste from the mouse, press shift and center click.
or shift+insert - I love that one
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thanks for the responses.
I meant unusable in the sense I couldn't (easily paste)
I shall look at the
/etc/vimrc. look file
thanks everybody, this forum is seems to be really good at getting good responses.
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I've tried changing the line to read mouse-=a as mentioned, but am still unable to paste with the mouse..
Do i need to re-login ?
cheers
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I've tried changing the line to read mouse-=a as mentioned, but am still unable to paste with the mouse..
Do i need to re-login ?
cheers
You shouldn't have to. Vim's config file gets read on start up.
This is a strange problem that you're having. Copying works like it should here, and it always has, even before I started using my own vimrc file. Out of curiosity, are you starting up with 'vi' or 'vim'?
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You can turn off that visual function in your /etc/vimrc. look for where it says set mouse=a and change it to set mouse-=a.
hah! thanks. iv'e actually switched from vim as default editor to kwrite but i still use it sometimes so thanks..
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I'm having this problem too. PuTTY WinXP, logging into Arch Linux. I used to be able to use right-click to paste from the Windows clipboard (the scroll wheel uses the wrong clipboard) but now it just changes me to (insert) VISUAL.
I put
set mouse-=a
in /etc/vimrc, but it didn't work; perhaps because I need to logout and login. But typing that incantation from within the editor works fine.
However, I would beg to differ that "In many terminal emulators the mouse works just fine, thus enable it". Should I upgrade PuTTY? (currently 0.53b)
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i have the following in my vimrc
set mouse=v "disable goofy mousing
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We are on it.
http://www.mail-archive.com/aur-general … 02861.html
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wewt!
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"tacos" -- Cactus' Law
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[stijn@hermes ~]$ cat .virc
set mouse=v
colorscheme wombat
^^ What I have in my ~/.virc.
Even if you're the only user it's best to keep your changes in ~/.vi{,m}rc imho - that way upgrades don't force you to fiddle with merging old and new system configuration files.
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shift+insert to the rescue (you will put your hands on the keyboard anyways.)
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