Aw: recent change to vim defaults?

[Carsten Kunze]

Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> I noticed that suddenly vim is grabbing mouse movements, which makes 
> life really hard.
> 
> Was there a specific revision that brought in this change, and can it 
> be removed?

Of course this behavior can be disabled as suggested by others--or you give it a try.  IMHO using the mouse in vim has many advantages.  To temporarily disable the mouse you can press the SHIFT key.  As long as SHIFT is pressed vim ignores the mouse.  So you may use copy/paste with left and middle mouse buttons as before or you now use the mouse to position the cursor or select text--very useful IMHO (I actually have "set mouse=a" in .vimrc... ;)