[SOLVED] Copy in insert mode with mouse

Copy in insert mode with mouse

I'm using vsvim, sometimes I highlight code in insert mode with my mouse and want to copy or cut it out. But I don't know-how. Instead, I have to change back to normal mode, highlight it again then cut it. I tried to Ctrl+O but it would get rid of the highlight. Does anyone know how to solve this? highlighted text in insert mode

Solution

I have not used this extension, but when running vim natively, if you highlight stuff in insert mode, you can right-click and click on copy. Not sure whether this works in Visual Studio. However, reading the docs in GitHub I see there is a vim.handleKeys setting, that you can set in settings.json and you could specify C-c and C-v to be false in order to support Ctrl+c and Ctrl+v natively. The doc provides this example:

"vim.handleKeys": { "<C-f>": false }

which in your case would look like this:

"vim.handleKeys": { 
    "<C-c>": false, 
    "<C-d>": false 
}