On 2022-12-04, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Dec 2022 23:07:15 -0800
> > Gary Johnson wrote:
> > > I was troubleshooting a problem with the behavior of my mouse in
> > > gvim when I discovered that typing Ctrl-K in insert mode and moving
> > > the mouse to another window enters the special key code
> > > "<LeftMouseNM>". I can't find this special key documented anywhere.
> > > Even ":helpgrep \cmousenm" didn't return any results.
> > >
> > > Would someone please tell me what "<LeftMouseNM>" means?
> >
> > I know that ‘NM’ stands for ‘Non Mappable’. And that there is one entry
> > in the docs, which you can find with this pattern:
> >
> > :helpg \v\cmouse.?nm
> >
> > Other than that I have no clue. But I'm sure the devs can help.
>
> You are right, these are non-mappable mouse clicks. They are used
> internally, you can't really use them. But they might show up in some
> places.
Thank you both for the explanations.
I seem to be able to map it, though. I fixed my problem of
accidentally changing window focus while typing by adding this to my
vimrc:
imap <LeftMouseNM> <Nop>
Or does non-mappable mean that <LeftMouseNM> cannot be on the right
side of a mapping?
Regards,
Gary
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