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

Tim Rice tim at multitalents.net
Mon Jan 23 17:31:28 UTC 2017

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    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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