Larry Alkoff wrote:
Erlend Hamberg wrote:
On Friday 16 February 2007, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Maybe -- I've never understood how to properly use the * register under
X11. What comes from "Edit => Copy" (or Ctrl-C) in some non-Vim program
arrives in the + register in gvim, and what I yank into the +
register in
gvim is available for "Edit => Paste" (or Ctrl-V) in any non-Vim
program --
those I can understand.
In short:
X has, in addition to the regular clipboard, a selection buffer.
When you copy/cut text, it is placed in the clipboard (register + in
vim). When you select text with the mouse it's placed in the selection
buffer (register * in vim) without touching the clipboard.
I've been following this discussion and trying various things
but still can't get the hang of pasting in from other X programs.
So far the only thing that works is to use the mouse to select and copy
with left click which allows me to paste in vim with xterm menu -> edit
-> paste. Presumably this uses the vim + register.
I understand that copies elsewhere in X load the + register in vim
and mouse select loads the * register.
What doesn't seem to work is to paste + or * register stuff into vim.
Could I see some specific examples?
Larry
Using + register:
- Select text in any X program (Thunderbird, Firefox, Konqueror, ...)
- Edit => Copy
In gvim:
- to paste characterwise after the cursor:
"+p
- To paste characterwise before the cursor:
"+P
- To paste linewise after the cursor line:
:put +
- To paste linewise before the cursor line:
:.-1put +
- To paste linewise at the end:
:$put +
- To paste linewise before the first line:
:0put +
etc.
I don't use the * register myself, so the following is only hearsay:
Select text in any X11 program
In gvim: replace + by * everywhere to paste the selection.
<MiddleMouse> should also work, provided that the 'mouse' option includes "n"
or "a".
For console Vim:
- it won't work in /dev/tty (the pure-text console) because the latter has no
access to the X server hosting the clipboard and selections
- it will work in an xterm, konsole or gnome-terminal if the current version
of Vim was compiled with clipboard support.
Best regards,
Tony.
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