mouse=a prevents the ability of copying and pasting out of vim with readable characters.

Change mouse=a to mouse=r and that should fix your issue with that.

one thing I am wondering is, are you changing the config file for your vim with the mouse set to mouse=a?

mouse=a prevents the ability of copying and pasting out of vim with readable characters.

Change mouse=a to mouse=r and that should fix your issue with that.

one thing I am wondering is, are you changing the config file for your vim with the mouse set to mouse=a?

orignal answer ^

If mouse=r doesn't give you all the copy past options change it to mouse=v

Both mouse=r and mouse=v have the same functions you are needing, but depending on the vimrc you are using one will work better then the other.

mouse=a prevents the ability of copying and pasting out of vim with readable characters.

Change mouse=a to mouse=x and that should fix your issue with that.

one thing I am wondering is, are you changing the config file for your vim with the mouse set to mouse=a?

mouse=a prevents the ability of copying and pasting out of vim with readable characters.

Change mouse=a to mouse=r and that should fix your issue with that.

one thing I am wondering is, are you changing the config file for your vim with the mouse set to mouse=a?