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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

One of the things that really, really annoys me when I get lazy and use a pre-bundled set of (neo)vim plugins is how every one of them uses mouse functionality. I only use the mouse to copy/paste from the terminal to system clipboard. I don't want it hijacking him and entering visual mode.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

does this suggest that copy/paste from the terminal is broken by design and we need find a better way?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Vim has a better way, it's called :set clipboard=unnamedplus (alternatively, one can bind anything else to copy/paste to/from system cliboards). Not sure why would one use a mouse for this, honestly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think if you want to copy a specific selection to a mouse-based, different program then it makes sense to use the mouse for precision selection.

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