Hi all,
I've just joined this list. I'm not a vim developer per se. However, I
put together jVi, http://jvi.sourceforge.net , whose core is a port of
some of vim to java. It runs on NetBeans ( and JBuilder, but not
supported any more). jVi is based on vim-5.6.
A jVi user has added visual char/line and is now tackling block. So now
I want to setup access to the *real* vim clipboard, so blockmode paste
works between vim and jVi. So I'm learning how to access "native" data
formats in clipboard from java.
I couldn't get anything to work, so I looked at the vim7 source,
couldn't find windows source (I run cygwin, but not cygwin's vim, at
home). I downloaded extras. I now see that the clipboard name has
changed to VimClipboard2, and there's a whole lot more... So I changed
the name, but still no luck. I thought I'd ping this list in case anyone
has accessed the vim clipboard from java or has some clues.
As an experiment I'm doing
public static final String VIM_CLIPBOARD2 = "VimClipboard2";
SystemFlavorMap.addFlavorForUnencodedNative(
ViManager.VIM_CLIPBOARD2, Misc.VimClipboardDataFlavor.get());
and the other way around. But after a paste into jVi from vim the
DataFlavor I've defined is not available.
Any clues?
In os_mswin.c it looks like VimClipboard2 is always made available, so
it should be there somewhere.
Once I get something working, I'll look at doing all the various
encodings... based on VimClipboard2. Or maybe, I'll use VimClipboard2
just to find out if it is MCHAR/MLINE/MBLOCK. Then go to the regular
DataFlavors to pick the string type I'm looking for.
-ernie
