Re: mintty mouse behavior with vim

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca>]

On 2023-05-11 12:44, Jose Isaias Cabrera via Cygwin wrote:
> 
> On May 11, 2023 2:24 PM, Brian Inglis  expressed:
> 
>> If I select columns or lines in vim, then the statusline at the bottom of the window
>> shows the number of columns or lines selected before the cursor line and column
>> numbers and percentage thru the file, or the modeline if multiple windows are
>> visible e.g.
>>
>> -- SELECT --				4	7,2		All
>> or
>> -- SELECT --						4
> 
> That's the problem. It's not doing it for me on vim on the cygwin xterm, nor on a connection to an ubuntu server through cygwin mintty. I have gvim for windows, and that works perfectly. But, when I use the cygwin terminal, and an ssh'ed connection to ubuntu, the mouse does not work. I will try to see what are my .vimrc settings for Windows, cygwin and ubuntu and try to match it. I may need to join the vim email support. Thanks.

If you're running Cygwin/X (installed xinit) you should install Cygwin gvim(/X) 
for local use and run gvim clients from remote systems on your X server e.g.

	$ ssh -f -Y ubuntu-remote gvim ...

I moved everything under VIM=$HOME/.vim with VIMRUNTIME=/usr/share/vim/vim82 and 
cygpath -w equivalent under Windows in the user environment with 
VIMRUNTIME='C:\Program Files\Vim\vim90', also hardlinks from $HOME to $VIM 
files, as I used Windows gvim under Cygwin before installing Cygwin/X and gvim, 
with EDITOR=vim and VISUAL='gvim -f', and still use Windows gvim on the desktop.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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