Hi lcd, Many thanks for your help these days.
You are right. My vim version has only +clipboard but does not support xterm_clipboard. I have not found a version of vim for mac that can support xterm_clipboard yet. But I am glad to find out the source of the problem. Li On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:39 AM, LCD 47 <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16 March 2014, Li Xue <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi lcd, > > > > Many thanks for your detailed instructions and explanations! I really > > appreciate it! > > > > I did the steps you told me and in fact my yanks can appear on both > > the remote and local xclipboard windows, even though I still cannot > > paste the results on the local machine. So the remote transmission > > works. > > Excellent! > > > Do you happen to have any idea why I cannot paste my yanks on the > > local machine? > [...] > > Your experiment above shows that the problem is local to your Mac > machine. Now, I don't know much about Mac OS, but I suppose you need > version of Vim with +clipboard, +X11, and +xterm_clipboard, and you > might want to add something like this to your vimrc: > > set clipboard=unnamedplus,autoselect > > (it's probably safe to leave alone the linux console exception, since > you won't run into it on Mac). After that, you should be able to open > xclipboard, type something there, and than paste it in a local Vim. If > Vim can't paste the contents of the clipboard, the problem is incomplete > (or buggy) integration between your Vim and X11. I'm not sure what you > can do about that; as I understand there are several implementations of > Vim for Mac, perhaps try a different one. > > /lcd > > -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "vim_dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/vim_dev/G1Def0Fj27U/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Xue, Li Post-doctoral Research Associate College of Information Sciences and Technology Penn State University Email: [email protected] Web site: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~lixue/ -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
