Can't select text in terminal after Stretch upgraded VIM 8

[leveret]

I recently upgraded to Debian 9 Stretch. It includes VIM 8.

Previously, I could select text with the mouse and copy and paste it using the terminal application. Now this initiates "visual" mode which I have read the documentation for.

Using the mouse, it selects text using VIM instead of the terminal, and I cannot copy it.

I can't see any way of disengaging this, except recompiling with visual mode disabled.

There must be a way, right?

[GarryRicketson]

Have you tried reading the manual or anything ?
https://vimhelp.appspot.com/vim_faq.txt.html#faq-15.9

Note that by default, the 'selectmode' option will be set to empty, so that
always visual mode is used.

For more information, read

'selectmode'
Select-mode
:behave

faq-15.10
15.10. How do I visually select the last copy/pasted text?

You can use the '[ and '] marks to visually select the last copy/pasted
text. The '[ mark is set to the beginning of the last changed/yanked text
and the '] mark is set to the end of the last changed/yanked text. To
visually select this block of text use the command '[v']

[leveret]

i have tried many things in the docs. i can move to selectmode for example, but it doesn't change this behaviour.

in further googling, i did just stumble upon 'set mouse=r' which allows copy to work on a selection. though adding this via .vimrc seems to have unintended consequences like turning off colour in vim.

i would really appreciate some guidance on the correct way to deal with this. thanks

to clarify: i just want the behaviour as it was in jessie/vim 7.4

[Bulkley]

My stretch uses Vim 2:8.0.0197-4. Where did you get "VIM 8"?

What you could do is purge your vim and all its configs and then reinstall vim with

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apt-get install vim

.

[leveret]

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vim is already the newest version (2:8.0.0197-4).

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vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Apr 23 2017 12:10:29)

[reinob]

I recently upgraded to Debian 9 Stretch. It includes VIM 8.

Previously, I could select text with the mouse and copy and paste it using the terminal application. Now this initiates "visual" mode which I have read the documentation for.

Using the mouse, it selects text using VIM instead of the terminal, and I cannot copy it.

I can't see any way of disengaging this, except recompiling with visual mode disabled.

There must be a way, right?

If the program supports mouse (like vim apparently does, I tested it with midnight commander), then you need to press SHIFT in order to bypass it and let the terminal program (I use xfce4-terminal) handle it.

[leveret]

in stretch, VIM 8 uses a new defaults.vim file in /usr/share/vim/vim80/

in this file i commented out the

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set mouse=a

and it had the desired result. i don't run vim heavily customised, so i am happy with this.