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Vim enters into visual mode on selecting text after El Capitan update

Issue is what the title says. Earlier I used to copy text from text files open in vim simply by selecting text and doing Ctrl + C. But now it puts me into visual mode, thus not allowing to copy the text. Its really annoying. Anybody knows any fix for this.

Thanks.

Solution

  • You probably have the mouse mode active. You can turn it off with:

    :set mouse=

    And turn it back on with

    :set mouse=a

    iTerm users

    If you are using iTerm, you can leave mouse mode on all the time if you want, and hold Option when you want to select without using visual mode. I am not aware of a way to do that in OS X Terminal.

    Update (from Younes in comments): For Terminal.app on El Capitan, press the Fn key to bypass the mouse mode. See this question for more.