VIM disable mouse

I want to be able to paste text into VIM inside an SSH session, but on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS it goes into visual mode and I can't complete the paste.

So to disable this behavior (and completely disable mouse in vim) do:

# create ~/.vimrc and add the following to it.
set mouse-=a

VIM quick save and exit

# and another thing I've been doing in vim for years to exit
:wq!

# I could have just been doing
:x

# let's have a moment of silence to mourn the wasted key strokes