mintty mouse behavior with vim

[Jose Isaias Cabrera]

Greetings.

In mintty, while using vim, I would like to highlight a few lines, and have vim tell me how many lines have been highlighted. Is this a possibility? For example:

0
1
->2
->3
->4
->5
6
7
8
9

If I highlight lines 2 through 5, I would like vim to tell me that 4 lines have been highlighted. It works fine with the windows vim, but it does not want to do it through mintty. Thoughts? Thanks.

José

PS: The real problem is that I am ssh'ing to an ubuntu box which I am using vim, but the mouse is not being acknowledged. Although, I can highlight and copy/paste, but clicking to a word to move the cursor there, it's not acknowledged.