[arch-general] vi - Howto make past from clipboard work??

David C. Rankin drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com
Tue Apr 21 11:12:05 EDT 2009


Biru Ionut wrote:
> David C. Rankin wrote:
>> Listmates,
>>
>>     One thing I have to fix is vi's behavior of wanting to go into
>> visual mode
>> ever time I try to select something and vi's refusal to paste the
>> clipboard in
>> insert mode using the middle mouse button. I know this must be a basic
>> configuration setting somewhere? I've looked for /etc/vimrc and
>> ~/.vimrc but
>> all I found was ~/.viminfo and that didn't help.
>>
>>     So... hoping not to have to reinvent the wheel, where is this
>> setting hiding??
>>
> 
> set mouse-=a
> 

Thanks Biru,

	That works great for a single session, but how/where do I make the change
permanent?

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