vimscript: add functionality to mouse click with key mapping

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I use vim in xterms on Arch linux. Wanting to automatically set marks for subsequent command ranges I wrote this mapping

map <LeftMouse> mp:let g:oc=g:nc<cr>:let g:nc=getpos('.')<cr>:call setpos("'o", g:oc)<cr>:call cursor(g:nc[1], g:nc[2])<cr>

but now the mouse no longer places the cursor at the clicked location. How can I keep standard mouse function, and add to it rather than replacing it?

user985675 · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-16 18:27:50Z

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It seems its not possible to modify LeftMouse, but you can achieve the effect of it using LeftRelease. So my mapping does what I want as

nmap <LeftRelease> mp:let g:oc=g:nc<cr>:let g:nc=getpos('.')<cr>:call setpos("'o", g:oc)<cr>

and the standard function of is unchanged.

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SibiCoder · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-17 18:48:00Z

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You can :set mouse=a for using visual select mode. (This is not what you wanted but it is a trick). Then, click on text, you will see that it is getting selected. Then, you can release it.

A mapping like

 :map gv ma

will set the last recently selected text as mark a.

Other way:

Instead of :set mouse=a, you can press v and then select a letter or a word, depending upon your convenience and then ma for marking it as mark a. A short mapping for it will be

:map vly ma

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user985675 Over a year ago

Thanks, but I wanted to achieve the result, marking ranges for commands/functions, by using something i already was doing - clicking the mouse to relocate the cursor. I finally settled on this mapping: 'nnoremap <silent> <LeftMouse> <LeftMouse>:call setpos("'o", getpos("'p"))<cr>mp'. I hadn't understood the use of nnoremap, without it the mapping would just produce an endlessly repeated click.

SibiCoder Over a year ago

Now, you have found a solution, isn't?

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