On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 10:45 PM, Guido Trentalancia <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > I found that the gpm support (copy and paste from/to a terminal) does > not work unless the --disable-gpm option is passed to the configure > script before building vim. > > Is there any particular reason for such strange behaviour ? When the > gpm support is enabled (or autodetected), the paste operation seems to > break when opening the gpm control device /dev/gpmctl (function > Gpm_Open()). > > Regards, > > Guido
AFAIK, gpm works only on the Linux text console, which has no X11 connection, thus no access to the X11 clipboard and no copy-paste. There (after Ctrl-Alt-F1 to Ctrl-Alt-F6 followed by login) cursor positioning by mouse works in my gpm-enabled Huge Vim; but there is no copy-paste because the (X11) clipboard is not accessible. (Vim-style yank, delete and put within a single Vim instance work; they don't use the clipboard.) OTOH, in konsole, xterm, etc., copy-paste works in the same Vim executable because I compile it with +X11; those X11 terminal emulators don't use gpm. Best regards, Tony. -- -- 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.
