Hi Ted, 

Thanks for the reply. I figured that you tried tell me that i confused the two 
copy-paste methods. You think that I highlight some text, and then ctrl+C (copy 
text in clipboard selection), then used middle-click in gvim. The random text 
is  because the middle-click pass the text from primary selection (as I 
highlight other text somewhere else) rather than from clipboard selection.

However, this is not the case. I tried both "*p and "+p. "*p pasted the text 
from ctrl+C. But, "+p did not pasted anything which I highlighted, instead it 
shown some text like a latex template.

This situation occurs only when I edit a latex file. The middle-click or 
"+p/"*p works fine when I edit files with other suffixes.

Any idea?

Liang

On 23 Jul 2012, at 08:38, Ted Pavlic <t...@tedpavlic.com> wrote:

> Liang --
> 
> Before continuing, are you sure there's no confusion about "primary"
> and "clipboard" selections in X11? Your trouble may come from being
> accustomed to using vim in a terminal (not an X virtual terminal) and
> then moving to using gvim alone (or, perhaps, vim in a virtual
> terminal in X11). What is getting pasted when you hit your middle
> button is not random; it is likely text you have highlighted (perhaps
> inadvertently) in another window.
> 
> Here's a decent reference on primary and clipboard selections in X11
> (in this case, they refer to EMacs and XEmacs, but the general
> description of these different types of selections applies for Vim and
> Gvim as well):
> 
> http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
> 
> Your middle mouse button in an X11 application (like GVim) will access
> the "primary" (as opposed to "clipboard") selection. So if you've
> highlighted some text in one window and middle-click in GVim, you
> should expect that highlighted text to get pasted even if you didn't
> explicitly "copy" it anywhere.
> 
> It sounds like you would prefer your middle mouse button to do the same thing 
> as
> 
> "+p
> 
> but instead you're getting the result of
> 
> "*p
> 
> Is that correct? Can you try those two combinations and compare them
> to your mouse click?
> 
>     You may be interested in:
> 
> :help clipboard
> 
> and
> 
> :help x11-selection
> 
>    Best --
>    Ted
> 
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Liang Guo (Gmail)
> <liang.guo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I used to use vim-latex in vim-7.3, and I do not have any problem to use 
>> mouse middle button to paste text from elsewhere.
>> 
>> And, now I try to edit my latex file in gvim-7.3, things getting bizarre. 
>> Every time I press middle button, random text is pasted. And this only 
>> occurred when I'm editing latex file, files with .tex as suffix. Therefore, 
>> I'm sure it is something related to vim-latex in gvim.
>> 
>> Does anyone encounter the similar problem?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Liang
>> 
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