In Vim, why doesn't my mouse work past the 220th column?

Question

I tend to maximize a terminal to one screen, and vertically split several windows in Vim. Everything works fine for the first few windows on the left, but clicking past abou

Answer 1

Edit:
I deleted the bug report, as that tracker was for the website, not the text editor.

In looking in the correct place for an existing bug report, I found this: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/browse_thread/thread/4c137e64d2032441/b3993eaa89589619?lnk=gst&q=mouse#b3993eaa89589619

To summarize, it was an xterm limitation that has been lifted. However, Vim does not yet support columns longer than 223.

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Original:
This seems to be a bug, as supported by comments made by redstreet. I filed a bug report:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3389331&group_id=27891&atid=391887