Debian Stretch 9: Copy and Paste not working

Recently, when I started using Debian Stretch, I came across the problem of copying and placing in the Terminal, which wasn’t working.

Solving the Copy and Paste problem in Debian 9 Stretch

Open the file“/usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim” in an editor:

vim /usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim

Search the file for the following lines:

if has('mouse')
  set mouse=a
endif

Comment out the lines using double quotes:

" if has('mouse')
"  set mouse=a
" endif

Now your editor will work as it did before 🙂