On Monday, September 30, 2013 4:21:35 AM UTC+2, [email protected] wrote:
> This group seems to be used mostly by programmers, but there doesn't appear
> to be another group for user questions.
The mac_vim group is for any questions specific to the use of Vim on the Mac —
for newbies and programming gurus alike. Admittedly it is not always evident to
determine if a given question is a "Vim question" or a Mac question".
For Vim on any platform, there are two more high-traffic groups, namely vim_use
for questions relating to "using" Vim, and vim_dev for questions relating to
"developing" Vim (i.e., finding and fixing bugs, etc.).
> I'm using MacVim on Mountain Lion 10.8.4 on a MacBook Air (i.e. with a
> trackpad not a mouse) and am having trouble moving the cursor to a particular
> point in a text without selecting something (a character, a few characters, a
> word, a paragraph). Is there anyway to disable the feature of MacVim that
> allows non-vi selection of text? I would like to be able to alternate
> between command mode and insert mode and never have the in-between mode that
> allows mouse/trackpad selection of text. I hope I've made my problem clear.
> (I'm an old Unix user and prefer to use the yank and delete commands anyway
> in vi.) Many thanks and apologies for using this group for a question that
> is a non-programming or compiling matter. Chet C.
>
> P.S. I didn't have this problem with the old vvim / MacVim on OS 10.5.8, but
> the binary I used won't run on the Macbook Air processor.
I think that the settings described by the following help items answer your
questions (for Vim on any OS):
:help 'mouse'
to enable or disable (Vim reactions to) the mouse in each mode;
:help 'mousemodel'
to specify _how_ Vim reacts to the (enabled) mouse;
:help gui-mouse
a full section about using the mouse in a Vim GUI (i.e. gvim or macvim)
To Vim, a trackpad is just one kind of mouse: any differences are handled by
the mouse (or trackpad) driver that comes with the OS.
Best regards,
Tony.
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