On 2019-12-11, scoopgracie wrote: > Mouse support is very confusing. Users expect right-clicking in a terminal to > bring up a context menu, with absolutely zero exceptions.
Right-clicking in an xterm does not bring up a context menu, nor does it in mintty. > I always turn mouse > off. I use vim because it does not support the mouse. I'm sure many people use > it for that reason. > > A command-line program hijacking the mouse from the terminal is almost as bad > as a GUI program not supporting the mouse. The features in the terminal > emulator context menu are crucial, while mouse support is a command-line > editor > are not. > > People who want mouse support in vim use gvim, right? Wrong. I hardly ever use gvim because: 1) I'm always working at the command line; and 2) :sh in gvim does not give me a full-featured terminal. I use the mouse in vim in an xterm for dragging window borders and for scrolling, and occasionally for copying and pasting to and from external windows, but I usually use y and p for that. Regards, Gary -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/20191211213901.GD20506%40phoenix.
