[OmniOS-discuss] Annoying vim behavior for new system bring-up

[Tim Rice]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2017, Dan McDonald wrote:

> 
> > On Jan 23, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> > 
> > The ability to cut-and-paste into vi between two terminals is quite useful.  Has anyone else encountered this problem with OmniOS?
> 
> VIM 8 by default is too-clever for its own good.  I cannot copy text out of a VIM8 window using MacOS Terminal.app, because VIM8 wants to be "mouse-friendly" on my terminal.app.  Sheesh, at least EMACS has the good sense not to do that w/o a native windowing manager pane.
> 
> I don't have time now, but the build.sh for VIM should probably do some hacking in its "configure" options.  Community experimentation with this welcome.
> 
> Dan

For what its worth, there is a similar thread on the freebsd ports list
that starts here.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2017-January/106697.html

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