On Mi, 15 Apr 2020, Patrick Byrne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem selecting text with the mouse in vim.
>
> My monitor is 34" widescreen 2560x1080. Thats 284 columns in vim. I can only
> select up to column 223 using the mouse. I can still select and edit using
> keys
> in the columns right of here.
>
> 2560 / 283 is 9 pixels per character width, so 223 columns is 2007 pixels - so
> perhaps there is an internal 2000 pixel width limit in the mouse selection
> code? i can well believe that someone writing vim mouse selection code 20
> years
> ago might have thought 2000 an decent upper limit for screen width!
>
> This happens in vim 8.2.510 on archlinux which I think is a pretty recent
> build.
Check your 'ttymouse' option please.
Best,
Christian
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