As I understand it, the correct instructions won't be passed from the terminal to Vim. I don't use gvim in Linux at all (I use console vim in Linux and gvim in Windows). I select text with v V ^V too, I just play with the mouse when I am bored and taking a break from the keyboard :)
Thanks for expanding on my bug report. I have explicitly added Bram to this email, just to flag it to him. Max > -----Original Message----- > From: A.J.Mechelynck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 3:18 PM > To: Max Dyckhoff > Cc: vim mailing list > Subject: Re: Cursor gets stolen by the tab line > > Max Dyckhoff wrote: > > I use gvim 7.0 on Windows XP, and I always have multiple tabs open. I > > use a custom tabline, but this bug is visible with the default tabline > > as well. > > > > When I am bored and thinking about what to code I often play around with > > the mouse selecting text and dragging around inside gvim. Normally if > > you select text and drag the cursor off the bottom of the window then > > the text scrolls up, as you would expect. If you drag off the top of the > > window, passing over the tabline, then gvim essentially freezes until > > you release the mouse button. The text does not scroll in any direction, > > and you can wave the cursor over the window as much as you like and the > > same text selection will remain. > > > > Without the tabline visible this behaviour does not happen, and the text > > scrolls as expected. > > > > It looks like whatever grabs the cursor to allow you to click on the > > tabs to select them is grabbing the cursor when you pass over the > > tabline and refuses to release it until you release the cursor. > > > > I doubt there is a fix for this, so I suppose this email is serving > > rather more like a bug report, I'm just not sure if there is a better > > forum to announce this, and I'm sure I remembered someone saying bugs > > should be reported here! > > > > Cheers, > > > > Max > > > > -- > > Max Dyckhoff > > AI Engineer > > Bungie Studios > > > > > > > > In console Vim on Linux I don't see any scroll, not even when the mouse > is dragged off the bottom. The visual selection only appears after > releasing the mouse button. (This doesn't affect me much, since I > usually use the keyboard to select text by means of the v V ^V > Normal-mode commands.) > > In gvim I see this only in the top window of a tab (in other windows, > scrolling happens as soon as the mouse is dragged over the status line > of the window above the current one). > > However, if the mouse is dragged quickly past the tabline and into the > toolbar/menubar/titlebar area, then scrolling happens, but not every > time. I'm not sure how to make absolutely sure that it will scroll. > > > Bugs can, IIUC, be reported directly to Bram. They can also be reported > on the maillists if there is a reason to warn the users about them. > Whether to report them on vim@ vim-dev@ vim-multibyte@ etc., depends on > the nature of the bug. > > > Best regards, > Tony.
