On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 01:19:53AM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:14:01 +0100 Pawe?? Madej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> | for me it is used to make vim modular X compatible.
>
> Wha? No no no. If that flag is off, vim won't go anywhere near X. If
> that flag is on, vim will link against either modular or non-modular X.
Talking about vim and X, I have a question...
Background - I stay in real text consoles at 80x48 (YES!) as much as
possible. I do email (mutt) and usenet (slrn) and file management (mc)
in text mode. Web-surfing (Firefox), "internet TV" (mplayer), and
digital photos (Gimp) obviously require X. So I do a lot of switching
between {ALT-F10} (X session), {CTRL-ALT-F1} (mutt), and {CTRL-ALT-F2}
(slrn}, etc. I've tweaked ~/.urlview to open a new tab in Firefox from
mutt running in a text console. I've done something similar with slrn.
The one thing I find painful in my setup is copying text from the X
session to a text session or visa versa. I end up opening vim in X,
saving the selected text to ~/x, switching to a text console, and then
:r ~/x
in vim. At work, where I have to use Windows (ptui) I can copy text
from the GUI to the clipboard, {ALT-TAB} to a vim session, and paste the
clipboard with "* even if vim is running in a textmode console. Is
there some similar channel for vim in linux?
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