vim: cannot click past col 90

Question

Since I'm pretty new with vim, I (still) find the mouse very useful to click somewhere (to move quickly) and select blocks of text.

in my vimrc: set mouse=a

and also set textwidth=80 set colorcolumn=80

I can click to move the cursor, but not after the column 91. I really don't understand why this behaviour and why this arbitrary limit.

romainl · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-15T18:36:03.830

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You are limiting the effective width of your document to 80 columns. No wonder clicking outside of this arbitrary limit - that you choose - does nothing.

To be able to click anywhere, you must

:set virtualedit=all

but it doesn't make much sense if you set hard physical limits to your content.

edited Sep 15 '12 at 18:36

answered Sep 15 '12 at 16:02

romainl

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But it apparently still works in columns 80-90?! This rather reminds me of this recently fixed bug: _7.3.632 cannot select beyond 222 columns with the mouse in xterm_ – Ingo Karkat Sep 15 '12 at 19:25

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 31 '16 at 05:39

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you can try to set fileencoding and encoding of vim be the same value,

set fileencoding=utf-8
set encoding=utf-8

and make sure your locale is the same value, too.

you can use 'locale' command to get your own locale in a terminal.

answered Aug 31 '16 at 05:39

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