> Vim is one major exception to the automatic update problem. Except for one thing that pissed me off a great deal. I am not a true vim user, though I use it f

> Vim is one major exception to the automatic update problem. Except for one thing that pissed me off a great deal. I am not a true vim user, though I use it from time to time, because it is everywhere and it works through ssh. At some point they introduced "visual mode", and it turns on when you start using the mouse, it broke the way I used the mouse copy-paste in vim. I know I can do "set mouse-=a", but when I am just using vim as "the standard text editor" (sorry ed), I don't want to configure anything as it is usually a one shot job. I never asked for that, at some time, it just happened. I guess as a major upgrade, but the thing is, something changed that I didn't want to change. I understand the reason for this change, also https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/ but I just wanted to say that even vim is not immune. Some tools are immune though. Usually command line tools used in scripts. For example "apt-get" doesn't change, but "apt" does. "apt-get" is what you use when you want a stable interface (especially scripts), "apt" is for when you want something nicer.