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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:38:15 -0700
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Subject: Re: Double click to select within VIM behavior change
From: Keith Christian <keith1christian AT gmail DOT com>
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On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Rafael Kitover <rkitover AT cpan DOT org> wrote:
> No idea, but in mintty you can hold shift to override the application's
> use of the mouse. So holding shift will let you double click on words or
> select text for pasting anywhere in the vim window, regardless of what
> the 'mouse' option is set to. You can also :set mouse= to turn off vim's
> use of the mouse, set mouse=a to turn it back on.


Rafael, thanks, your suggestion to hold down SHIFT, while performing a
regular text selection in a Vim buffer within PuTTYCyg works.


=====Keith

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