Re: vi copy/paste - maybe a bit OT

2019-07-04 Thread Michael
On 2019-07-04, at 1:22 PM, Bill Cole wrote: > On 4 Jul 2019, at 14:55, Michael wrote: >> or is there some way to get that data back when you leave full-screen mode? >> (is there a second output buffer that can be switched between somehow?) > > Yes. There's the "Show Alternate Screen/Hide

Re: vi copy/paste - maybe a bit OT

2019-07-04 Thread Bill Cole
On 4 Jul 2019, at 5:32, Christoph Kukulies wrote: I’m asking it here although the vi in macOS surely isn’t a macport but I’m asking anyway: Whenever I copy/paste a file content in vi (started from a Terminal) using CMD-A or select-CMD-C to select all to put it elsewhere into a text

Re: vi copy/paste - maybe a bit OT

2019-07-04 Thread Bill Cole
On 4 Jul 2019, at 14:55, Michael wrote: On 2019-07-04, at 3:03 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: AFAIK, if your terminal display is restored after exiting vi, the terminal provides (and vi uses, via the smcup and rmcup terminfo strings) an alternate buffer, for full-screen use. Ideally, that

Re: vi copy/paste - maybe a bit OT

2019-07-04 Thread Michael
On 2019-07-04, at 3:03 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > AFAIK, if your terminal display is restored after exiting vi, the terminal > provides (and vi uses, via the smcup and rmcup terminfo strings) an alternate > buffer, for full-screen use. Ideally, that alternate buffer should NOT >

Re: vi copy/paste - maybe a bit OT

2019-07-04 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Use the GUI version of vim (/Applications/MacPorts/MacVim.app). Or use regular vi / vim in a different terminal emulator that doesn't behave as you describe. AFAIK, if your terminal display is restored after exiting vi, the terminal provides (and vi uses, via the smcup and rmcup terminfo

vi copy/paste - maybe a bit OT

2019-07-04 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I’m asking it here although the vi in macOS surely isn’t a macport but I’m asking anyway: Whenever I copy/paste a file content in vi (started from a Terminal) using CMD-A or select-CMD-C to select all to put it elsewhere into a text receiving object (like Notes) using CMD-V, I’m getting the