Jean Johner wrote:
> On Feb 27, 1:54 pm, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If I understand you correctly, that's the selection mechanism that lets
> > you copy text from the screen to the command you are typing.
>
> Hello Bram,
> What I wanted to say is that the present behaviour is not intuitive in
> my opinion.
> Take the case of the Linux distribution with the default .vimrc
> After you have typed
> gvim file1
> :sp file2
> q:
> you get two status lines: file1 at the bottom and file2 in the middle.
> When you put the mouse on the status line file1, you see a vertical
> double-sided arrow which indicates that you can use the mouse to
> change the dimension of the window. And in fact it does.
> When you put the mouse on the status line file2, you see the same
> arrow so that you are tempted to do the same, but this time it does
> not work (for good reasons) and you select text instead. I think that
> will be felt to be a bug by new users (like me).
> Two possibilities in my opinion:
> 1/ When you put the mouse on status line file2, a cross appears
> instead of an arrow, indicating that the mouse is not active there. If
> the user tries to drag, nothing happens. Selection of text in the
> status line is forbidden in that case.
> 2/ If you really want to allow selection in the status line file2
> (which in my opinion is not useful since it is not possible in status
> line file1), then it would be better to show the standard oblique one-
> sided arrow when you put the mouse on status line file2.
Oh, you are using the command line window. That's a different thing.
It appears there is a bug that forbids dragging the status line between
the split windows. I'll look into that.
> I have another problem in the case of Windows distribution with the
> default _vimrc.
> After having typed the same commands as above, I could not find a way
> to copy the text selected by dragging the mouse in file1 or file2 to
> the command line window. Center-click does work neither CTRL-C/CTRL-V.
I haven't verified the specific situation, there are a few options and
mappings that may change behavior. Especially 'mousemodel' and sourcing
$VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim.
Copying modeles selection is done with CTRL-Y, past with CTRL-R +.
:help modelsss
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