Public bug reported:
Upgrading vim in Focal from 2:8.1.0875-5ubuntu4 to 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu1
changed the default behavior.
Old:
:set mouse
mouse=
New:
:set mouse
mouse=a
That new behavior prevents most peoples common
In fact that is one thing that always annoys me when working with a Debian
VM/Container to have switch to mouse=v to get things working again.
Issues:
- marking something with the mouse does NOT copy it anymore
- marking something with the mouse does not even allow right-click to copy
- probably more
Yes I know one could press shift to get the old behavior, but that isn't
how the rest of the terminal works. I'd much prefer to "press shift for
the uncommon/new behavior".
We always had in the changelog:
- debian/patches/ubuntu-mouse-off.patch:
+ Mouse mode is actively harmful in some chroots.
Old bug 1661691 brought that delta in early 2017
But this was dropped on the last merge:
* Dropped changes, included upstream:
- debian/patches/ubuntu-mouse-off.patch:
+ Mouse mode is actively harmful in some chroots.
Yet if this would be upstream then the behavior would not have changed right?
Was this change intentional and is there a good reason that makes up for the
drawback?
Or is it a bug that was missed on the merge of the new version and should be
resolved before 20.04 goes into FF?
** Affects: vim (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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new vim version in 20.04 sets mouse=a by default
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