How to turn off auto-insert when selecting text with gVim?

Hello I'm a bit new still to gVim and have a vi and ViEmu(Visual Studio) background. One thing that constantly bugs me if that when I select text with the mouse it will enter SELECT mode. However, I can't do anything from there because whenever I press any key it will replace what I have selected with the key and automatically switch to INSERT mode. How do I keep this from happening 开发者_StackOverflow中文版and keep it in SELECT mode or at least COMMAND mode?

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It looks like you ware using gvim on windows, and that you haven't deleted mswin.vim. This file is the root of many evils. My advice: get rid of it and learn vim's way of copy/pasting.

EDIT: you may also need the behave xterm as Benoit suggested. I don't remember if it is really required (all I can say is that my _vimrc has it)

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Use:

:behave xterm

and put that to your vimrc.

EDIT : better follow Luc Hermitte's answer.

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But the most direct answer is to set selectmode to the desired value.

:set selectmode&

The selectmode is set by the behave command (so yes, removing behave mswin or source mswin.vim and the likes does help).

Look at :he behave to see which values are used for xterm/mswin modes

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Documentation :he selectmode

'selectmode' 'slm' string (default "")

      global
      {not in Vi}
  This is a comma separated list of words, which specifies when to start
Select mode instead of Visual mode, when a selection is started.
Possible values:
   mouse    when using the mouse
   key      when using shifted special keys
   cmd      when using "v", "V" or CTRL-V
See |Select-mode|. 
The 'selectmode' option is set by the |:behave| command.