On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 12:35 AM Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.mac...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> MacVim maintainer here. I think what you are looking for is similar to how
> Vim running in a terminal has two tiers of selection / copy-paste: Vim's own
> visual mode selection and yanking, versus terminal's (or tmux) own selection
> and copy-paste mechanism. For example, in most terminals you can hold down
> shift key and select using mouse to use the terminal's own selection scheme
> rather than Vim's (even with mouse=a). In fact, Vim's default interactions
> with the hosting terminal's copy-and-paste has been a source of contention
> and why Vim just changed defaults from mouse=a to mouse=nvi.
>
> Vim GUIs *kind of* have a concept of the same "system/terminal copy-paste"
> outside of visual mose / yanking that you want, but it's a little half-baked.
> Look up ":h modeless-selection" to read more. If you do "set mouse=" and then
> select texts in the GUI you are using modeless selection, which kind of
> simulates an external text selection. Annoyingly, you have to be in command
> line mode in order to copy texts (using CTRL-Y), so you have to type ":" to
> enter command-line mode first before you can copy the text. (Again, read the
> docs which provides more details)
>
> For the MacVim-specific part of not being able to unmap Cmd-C, that's because
> it's registered in the system for the Edit -> Copy menu item, so macOS will
> hijack it first. You can either remap the hotkey to something else (see ":h
> macmenu") or just remove the menu item (":aunmenu Edit.Copy").
>
> So the tldr is, do the following, and you will be able to use Cmd-C to copy
> texts when you have "set mouse=":
>
> aunmenu Edit.Copy
>
> nnoremap <D-c> :<C-Y><Esc>
>
>
> Hope that helps!
Thank you very much for this information! It was very helpful. I tried
to get it to work from insert mode with "inoremap <D-c>
<C-o>:<C-Y><Esc>" but no luck, so I've settled on the "autocopy"
mechanism. So I now have
set mouse=
set guioptions+=A
and I'll try it for a while to see if it's "good enough".
Thanks again for your help, and also for your work on MacVIm!
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