Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> On 3/26/07, Ken Hirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Here is an experimental patch for a new feature for gvim on MS Windows.
>> I'm glad to hear any feedback about the code or the feature itself. I've
>> tried to follow the conventions in the vim source code.  I call the
>> feature "ClipboardWatch".
>>
>> The new feature triggers an event "ClipboardChanged" whenever the
>> clipboard is changed (in any application).  The Windows editor "NoteTab"
>> implements this (as "pasteboard") and it is, at times, very handy.
>
> This doesn't seem quite relevant enough to include in Vim.  The
> example you give can quite easily be implemented with autohotkey [1].
>
>  nikolai
>
> [1] http://autohotkey.com/

There's vimtip #1370 (http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/tip.php?tip_id=1370), which tracks changes to the clipboard and appends the contents to a VIM buffer, all with a small VIM script. I agree with Nikolai that - though useful - this isn't core functionality that should be included in VIM.

-- regards, ingo

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