Disabling mouse support in VIM

Vim nowadays supports your mouse in the terminal. Unfortunately, it interferes when simply selecting text for other purposes. You can disable mouse support in VIM by:

Executing the following one-off command in VIM:

:set mouse=

You can also put the same command in your ~/.vimrc, making it a permanent change:

source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim
set mouse=

The source command is required to keep all other defaults in place.