> The whole point of this is the default to mouse=a means the following:
>
> * If you're a developer, and mouse mode is important within a terminal
> application, you have to :mouse=a one one system.
What is a "developer"? Perhaps you mean "anyone using Vim on just one
system"? That is very rare, most people use Vim on multiple systems.
> * If you're a sysadmin managing hundreds of systems, and mouse mode
> drives you utterly bonkers breaking text pasting as reported pretty
> much everywhere (just google vim mouse sucks),
I do not see why a sysadmin never uses the mouse to move the cursor.
Or use the scrollwheel. Or make a Visual selection with the mouse.
I think you are only saying "this change broke my habits and I can't
possibly change my habits".
> you have to type ```:set mouse=-a``` in every document you edit on
> every system you work on, or put a vimrc in place across every system
> you manage in every user account you use (non-root, root, etc).
If you are a sysadmin working with many systems, you do have a shorcut
key configured instead of typing "vim /etc/some/config" so many times,
right? So you can just make it "vim -u NONE /etc/some/config".
> So the convince of a few desktop users outweigh the sanity of anyone
> using vim on 100's of systems and containers.
My argument is that a sysadmin knows what he/she is doing and knows the
tools being used, thus has lots of ways to configure those tools to their
needs. While beginners start Vim and say "it doesn't even support the
mouse!", not knowing even the ":set" command, and switch to Notepad or
something.
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