On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 03:24:18PM +0000, cygwin wrote: > > Greetings. > > In mintty, while using vim, I would like to highlight a few lines, and > have vim tell me how many lines have been highlighted. Is this a > possibility? For example: > > 0 > 1 > ->2 > ->3 > ->4 > ->5 > 6 > 7 > 8 > 9 > > If I highlight lines 2 through 5, I would like vim to tell me that 4 > lines have been highlighted. It works fine with the windows vim, but it > does not want to do it through mintty. Thoughts? Thanks. > > José > > PS: The real problem is that I am ssh'ing to an ubuntu box which I am > using vim, but the mouse is not being acknowledged. Although, I can > highlight and copy/paste, but clicking to a word to move the cursor > there, it's not acknowledged. > You expect too much of ssh. ssh is a text utility, not an X one. The remote vim never sees your mouse actions: it's mintty that performs select / paste.
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