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Vim and mouse with ssh from Mac to Linux

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202611446 views
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Problem

I certainly know it's possible to make the mouse work in Vim on a remote session to a Linux machine from my Mac, but I haven't figured out just how. Daily vim gives a tip on making it work but if I try to set 'mac-ansi', for example, I get an error saying I can only specify values beginning with bu…

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ssh -X

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Fix for: Vim and mouse with ssh from Mac to Linux

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I don't think that Terminal.app supports xterm mouse reporting which is needed to make the mouse work. There are a few options to getting a terminal with mouse reporting functionality. iTerm is an alternative terminal program that support mouse repo…

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