Bug#837880: vim: Unable to globally disable mouse

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Fri Sep 30 23:47:41 UTC 2016


On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 09:09:04AM +0100, Tim Small wrote:
> mouse=a is now unconditionally set in /usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim
> 
> As this is sourced after /etc/vim/vimrc this takes precedent.

Yes, that has been discussed in this and the merged bug already.

> Would be good if this could be fixed (i.e. to honour /etc/vim/vimrc), but
> I'm not really sure what the best solution is myself.

Neither am I, yet.  That's why I haven't done anything so far.

The simplest thing may be to just advertise putting "let
g:skip_defaults_vim = 1" in /etc/vim/vimrc.local.

Cheers,
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James
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