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How to disable automatic visual mode during mouse selection in vim editor

In latest version of Linux, vim editor will automatically switched to visual mode when there is a mouse selection.

Actually its a new feature enabled by the vim developer team. But we could not copy any thing from vim editor using mouse which is a drawback.

This problem can be solved by running the following command.

#echo "set mouse-=a" >> ~/.vimrc

It will disable the visual mode during mouse selection.

That's all…

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