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vi behavior on Fedora?

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I observe 2 different behaviors of vi that I cannot explain. 2 different machines, same distribution

On one machine when I underline some text with the mouse (not in append mode), vi turns to a VISUAL mode, and not in the other machine.

posted Jan 8, 2017 by Sheetal Chauhan

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Looks like the issue which was fixed in this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1401410
commented Jan 8, 2017 by Anderson

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I recently had a similar experience after I finished upgrading to F25 (vim version 8.x)

Now I either start vi in the following way:

vi -C

(see vi --help for the explanations)

or if I have already started using vi with a particular file, I issue the following command:

:set mouse=

I seem to have more success w/ the former than the latter (YMMV).

answer Jan 8, 2017 by Sonu Jindal
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