On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Anton Backer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has anybody here tried setting the 'clipboard' setting to 'unnamedplus' with
> good results?
>
> Here are my experiences, contrasted with what I've come to expect from my
> time on Ubuntu. I have the following in my .vimrc:
>
> " Default clipboard to "+
> set clipboard=unnamedplus,exclude:cons\|linux
>
> On Ubuntu this worked exactly how it's described in `:help 'clipboard'`: the
> '*' register is used for yanks, deletes, changes, and puts. On OS X, however,
> I think I'm seeing a bug: it doesn't work for yanks (though it still works
> for deletes, changes, and puts.)
>
> I'm running Mavericks, and I've tested this with both terminal vim (iTerm2 +
> homebrew's build of vim) as well as MacVim. I've also tested it with `vim -u
> NONE --noplugin` to rule out any configuration issues.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions, aside from pbcopy, visual-mode and/or
> mouse-based selection, or any esoteric re-mappings?
>
> ---
>
> Side note: it looks like there's a bug in the documentation, which I'm not
> sure how to best report: `:help clipboard-unnamedplus` says that I can check
> for availability via `if has('unnamedplus')`, and yet 'unnamedplus' is
> seemingly not a "feature", so it returns 0 for me.
These are X11-specific features which is probably why its not working
they way you expect and why "has('unnamedplus')" returns 0. You may
be able to compile vim with the gtk gui to use them on OS X.
Björn
--
--
You received this message from the "vim_mac" 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_mac" 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/groups/opt_out.
