Scroll up/down while selecting multi-page block of text in Vim through putty

Posted by shan23 on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by shan23
Published on 2009-12-08T09:05:23Z Indexed on 2010/05/21 12:10 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 331

Filed under:

vim

|

select

|

mouse

|

xterm

I'm using vim 6.3.81 on a xterm through putty. When I use set mouse=a , I can scroll through the file , but not select text. When mouse is disabled using set mouse=, I can select text with mouse (automatically copied to a buffer) , but if the text block is over one page long , I can't scroll up/down (and have to select text one screen at a time) !!

Is there any way to have the best of both - while selecting text with mouse , if i reach the end of page , it automatically scrolls up/down depending on whether i've reached top/bottom of page and allows me to select text from the next page as well ?

I know vim is powerful/flexible enough to do what I want - I just don't know how !! Can anyone help ?

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about vim

Vim: Use different ~/.vim/plugin/ directories for different versions of vim?

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
Like many of you, my custom Vim configuration is stored in my ~/.vimrc, with the plugins, colors, etc. stored under ~/.vim/plugins, ~/.vim/colors, etc. I want to share a single Vim configuration among many servers. Some of these servers run Vim 7, some run the older Vim 6. Most Vim plugins are intended… >>> More
Why isn't the scripts in my autoload folder being executed in Vim?

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
I'm trying to use Pathogen to manage my Vim extensions. My bundle folder looks like this: .../bundle/ +-- vim-pathogen ¦ +-- autoload ¦ +-- pathogen.vim +-- vim-smoothscroll +-- autoload +-- smooth_scroll.vim And my vimrc file includes this: let s:root = fnamemodify(resolve(expand(":p"))… >>> More
Cygwin vim doesn't load files in runtimepath

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
I created a custom syntax file, and but none of the files in $VIMRUNTIME seem to load. I followed these pieces of the documentation: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/filetype.html#new-filetype http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/syntax.html#mysyntaxfile When I do :echo &runtimepath I… >>> More
Debugging matchit plugin in vim (under Cygwin)

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
The "matchit" plugin for vim is supposed to allow you to use the % key to jump between matching start/end tags when editing HTML, as well as /* and */ comment delimiters when editing other kinds of code. I've followed the exact instructions in ":help matchit", but % still doesn't work for me. It… >>> More
Vim: How to execute commands stored in a textfile opened in Vim

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
I store, commands found at http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse, in a text file. If I open this text file in Vim and I want to execute the command where the cursor is actually located I do copy the line with Y, switching to command mode with : and !CTRL+r* Is there a more "lazy" possibility ;) >>> More

Related posts about select

HTML muliple select should look like HTML select

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hi I am trying to use a HTML select box with 'multiple' select options and size to 1 as below ` <SELECT NAME="toppings" MULTIPLE SIZE=5> <OPTION VALUE="mushrooms">mushrooms <OPTION VALUE="greenpeppers">green peppers </SELECT> When the size is set to 1 small scrollbar appears… >>> More
MySQL Query Select using sub-select takes too long

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I noticed something strange while executing a select from 2 tables: SELECT * FROM table_1 WHERE id IN ( SELECT id_element FROM table_2 WHERE column_2=3103); This query took approximatively 242 seconds. But when I executed the subquery SELECT id_element FROM table_2 WHERE column_2=3103 it… >>> More
SQL SERVER- IF EXISTS(Select null from table) vs IF EXISTS(Select 1 from table)

as seen on SQL Authority - Search for 'SQL Authority'
Few days ago I wrote article about SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure Optimization Tips – Best Practices. I received lots of comments on particular blog article. In fact, almost all the comments are very interesting. If you have not read all the comments, I strongly suggest to read them. Click here to… >>> More
Nesting Linq-to-Objects query within Linq-to-Entities query –what is happening under the covers?

as seen on Programmers - Search for 'Programmers'
var numbers = new int[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 }; var contacts = from c in context.Contacts where c.ContactID == numbers.Max() | c.ContactID == numbers.FirstOrDefault() select c; foreach (var item in contacts) Console.WriteLine(item.ContactID); Linq-to-Entities… >>> More
Play Framework: Error getting sequence nextval using H2 in-memory database

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
As the title suggests, I get an error running Play 2.0.1 Tests using a FakeApplication w/ H2 in memory. I set up a basic unit test: public class ModelTest { @Test public void checkThatIndustriesExist() { running(fakeApplication(inMemoryDatabase()), new Runnable() { public… >>> More