hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
> Vim is one major exception to the automatic update problem.Except for one thing that pissed me off a great deal. I am not a true vim user, though I use it from time to time, because it is everywhere and it works through ssh. At some point they introduced "visual mode", and it turns on when you start using the mouse, it broke the way I used the mouse copy-paste in vim. I know I can do "set mouse-=a", but when I am just using vim as "the standard text editor" (sorry ed), I don't want to configure anything as it is usually a one shot job.I never asked for that, at some time, it just happened. I