{"authors":["utzer"],"canonical_url":"https://newblog.utzer.de/2019/03/16/disable-vim-visual-mode/","categories":["Linux","vim"],"content":"It drives me nuts that I cannot copy something from a ssh terminal when I use vim. I have no clue what this visual mode is meant to do besides anoying my.\n\nMy solution:\n\n```\necho \"set mouse-=a\" \u003e\u003e ~/.vimrc\n```\n\nno more visual mode -\u003e marking and copying text from vim by using the mouse works again.\n","content_format":"markdown","date":"2019-03-16T20:52:31Z","description":"It drives me nuts that I cannot copy something from a ssh terminal when I use vim. I have no clue what this visual mode is meant to do besides anoying my. My solution: ``` echo \"set mouse-=a\" \u003e\u003e ~/.vimrc ``` no more visual mode -\u003e marking and copying text from vim by using the mouse works again.","html_url":"https://newblog.utzer.de/2019/03/16/disable-vim-visual-mode/","json_url":"https://newblog.utzer.de/2019/03/16/disable-vim-visual-mode/index.json","lastmod":"2019-03-16T20:52:31Z","markdown_url":"https://newblog.utzer.de/2019/03/16/disable-vim-visual-mode/index.md","media":[],"schema_version":1,"tags":["editor","linux","vim"],"title":"disable vim visual mode","type":"blog_post"}