Lech Lorens wrote: > On 16-Aug-2010 Peter Odding <pe...@peterodding.com> wrote: > > Lech Lorens wrote: > > >Recently I've also been having lots of problems with pasting into/from > > >Vim. So far I haven't figured out what it is that makes pasting > > >sometimes fail, but it happens to me frequently. If I am not mistaken, > > >if an instance of Vim is having problems with pasting, it doesn't get > > >better; the only solution is to close Vim and start a new instance. > > > > Are you referring to a specific platform or GUI version of Vim? > > Because I've been getting annoyed with GVim 7.3 on GTK (Linux) > > apparently losing my paste buffer. One complication in my setup is > > that I'm running VirtualBox with clipboard integration enabled and > > while this is a great feature when it works, it also seems to eat my > > paste buffer once in a while... > > > > - Peter Odding > > Ah, how could I have forgotten to mention that I'm using Vim 7.3 with Athena > GUI on Linux. > The thing that deceived me at first is that I recently changed my window > manager from Fluxbox under Gnome to Awesome. But if more people are > having problems, maybe Vim is to blame. > > -- > Cheers, > Lech
for me (from the original report), vim definitely looks like the culprit. i'm using macosx-10.6.4, motif (from macports) and the X11 that comes with macosx (and a recent version of xquartz-2.5.2) and twm. given that fixed setup, vim-7.3 can't copy/paste but vim-7.2.446 can. i'm just having another look at the behaviour which seems to be: on starting gvim, you can copy from other windows and paste into gvim's window multiple times. however, as soon as you select any text in the gvim window it no longer sees any text selections that have happened in other windows, nor do other windows see any selections that have been made in gvim. so as soon as you select text in gvim, it becomes isolated from the system's primary selection and just operates with its own local one. so it looks like this behaviour applies to linux and macosx and to gtk, athena and motif but it obviously can't be happening for everyone or it would never have survived this far. i hope this helps someone find the cause of the problem. cheers, raf -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
