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

On 18:46 Fri 24 Jan , 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?
>
> Outside of insert mode the mouse scroll is a great feature, so I only
> want to disable it when in insert mode.
> Thanks for any help,
>
>
>
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I don't think that you can disable the mouse wheel. But you can use
^r in insert mode to paste from various registers, e.g. from clipboard.
Read more in :help i^r

Best regards,
Marcin Szamotulski

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