Mouse not working correctly when running vim in tmux

daisy

I am running vim in tmux,

When I try to select a text range in VIM, the mouse keeps resetting its position so I can only select one line (the last line where the mouse happens).

Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

Jason Voyan

You need to configure two settings for this to work.

  1. In your .vimrcaddition:

    set ttymouse=xterm2
set mouse=a

  2. In your .tmux.confaddition:

    set -g mouse on

You'll then be able to use the mouse to select blocks of text, resize split windows, ...

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