Re: How to disable mouse scroll wheel when in insert mode?

On 1/24/14, 1:46 PM, Glenn Todd Miller wrote:
> Long time vim user looking for some advice on this, tried searching the
> web to no avail. I am using CentOS 6 and vim 7.2.411.
>
> My issue: In vim, I am in INSERT mode, my cursor is where I want it to be
> for a PASTE operation, but when I press the middle mouse button (which in
> my case is a scroll wheel) to do the paste the wheel moves inadvertently
> and I end up pasting somewhere else, not in the place where my cursor
> was when I entered INSERT mode.
>
> Is there a way to configure vim so that the mouse scroll wheel/middle
> mouse button is disabled when in INSERT mode?

The following mappings seem to do the trick:

inoremap <ScrollWheelUp> <Nop>
inoremap <ScrollWheelDown> <Nop>

I found them by typing:

:help Scroll<C-D>

and looking on the listed items. <C-D> is Ctrl-D.

Cheers!
Israel

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