On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 19:09, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 31/01/09 16:18, [email protected] wrote: >> Since making a system upgrade, my middle mouse click does no longer >> paste the xclip-clipboard but pastes the first item in the register. I >> tried putting >> >> :nnoremap<MiddleMouse> :w !xclip<CR><CR> >> :nnoremap<MiddleMouse> :-1r !xclip -o -sel clip<CR> >> >> in my .vimrc but nothing changes. conversely, I can't select text >> inside of vim and copy it to xclip or the gnome clipboard. > > Is there a clipboard tool in Gnome? I had similar problems (not only in > gvim) on my Linux system with KDE desktop, and klipper (the KDE > clipboard tool) was a great help. > > In Vim, the X selection (for middle-mouse pasting) is supposed to be the > * (star) register. Try instead > > nnoremap <MiddleMouse> "*p > inoremap <MiddleMouse> <C-R>* > > Remember that on X11 systems, <MiddleMouse> and "Edit => Paste" don't > use the same register: the former (X-selection) is the * (star) > register, the latter (X-clipboard) is the + (plus) register. > > > Best regards, > Tony.
Thanks, but that didn't work. I'm now using set mouse=nv instead of set mouse=a since that gives me more or less what I need. Will look into that Gnome Clipboard Manager though. Best Wishes, M --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
