On Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 11:32:09 PM UTC+1, Steve Molin wrote: > > I would like to use double-click to select a word and command-C to copy to > the system cut buffer (terminology?), which works fine as long as "set > mouse=a" > > But that has the side effect of moving the insert cursor position, which I > disable with "set mouse=" > > Can I have both behaviors? Ie, double-click to select a work, command-C to > copy selection, without moving the cursor? > > I've ready extensively in the FAQ and other docs and I can't figure it out. > > Thanks! >
The canonical way to put stuff into the clipboard or the cut-buffer in Vim is to "yank" (or "delete") into either register + or register *. Under X11 (Unix, Linux, BeOS, etc.) these two registers are different, under Windows they are the same, under OSX I'm not sure. Register + (the "clipboard") is used in all GUIs (including gvim) for Edit→Copy, Edit→Paste and Edit→Cut. Register * (the "selection") is pasted by the middle mouse button. The mouse works beautifully in gvim (or, I suppose, in the macvim GUI); when running Vim in a terminal it depends on the terminal. If the mouse doesn't do what you want you can always use the keyboard: for instance, to yank the current word into the clipboard from Insert mode it's Ctrl-O (or maybe Cmd-O on OSX, I'm not sure but I don't think so) followed by "+yaw (Ctrl-O for "do one Normal-mode command", quote-plus for "into the clipboard" and yaw for "yank a word). Once you get the hang of it you'll find out that the mouse is ideal to move the cursor to a random point in the text and that the keyboard is more efficient for almost everything else. Best regards, Tony. -- -- 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 vim_mac+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_mac/c8bceed2-ae21-42a7-b6ee-5a946f8fdca1%40googlegroups.com.
