Brian Sullivan wrote:
> What *exactly* does ":behave mswin" do?

At ':help :behave' we see that it sets "behavior for mouse and
selection". It then shows what I believe are the precise changes
(it sets certain values for four options). It has nothing to do
with Ctrl-C etc.

It is a long time since I have seen it, but I think that mswin
makes a selection behave like in Notepad: if you select some
text and type 'y', the selected text is replaced with 'y'. For
proper use of Vim, I strongly recommend removing mswin and
taking the trouble to learn the Vim procedures.

I will add that I use the Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V mappings because that
battle has been lost: I suspect that all apps written in the
last ten years on Mac/Linux/Windows use those keys. I was using
Konversation a while back (a Linux IRC client), and I wondered
how I could copy some text. Sure enough, Ctrl-C worked.

John

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