As others have written, if you're using gvim, it should just work because Vim is doing the copying and knows not to include the listchars characters. But even if you're using vim in a terminal such as xterm, it should also just work, because if Vim is properly configured to do the copying, again it knows not to include the listchars characters. The problem occurs when you use vim in a terminal and you let the terminal do the copying.
I almost always use vim in a terminal. Vim has the +clipboard, +xterm_clipboard and +X11 features enabled, and has "mouse=a" and "clipboard=unnamed,autoselect,exclude:cons\|linux" set. I don't normally use the mouse much, but I just tried an experiment where I set 'listchars' in one vim instance, used the left mouse button to copy a block of text, then used the middle mouse button to paste it into another vim instance and all the actual text was pasted but none of the listchars characters. A common problem is that some distributions include a version of vim that does not have the +X11 feature. Check that with ":version". I don't know about the Windows Console--I never use it. Regards, Gary -- -- 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 vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/20230725141637.GP6600%40phoenix.
