Hello Tony: Thanks for all of the information. I haven't had my coffee yet, and it will take a while to absorb all of this. But a couple of follow-up questions:
> > In vim, when I make a selection with my pointing device, > > whether in a file window or in the command line, > > that selection is always copied to the clipboard. > > ============== > > That's a good thing. > > ============== On Friday 27 February 2009, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > IMHO, it's a bad thing, but it's user-configurable by means the > 'clipboard' option, as follows: I'm curious as to why you feel it is a bad thing. Your opinion is of interest. > On the ex-command line, use > > :[range]y[ank] + I'm afraid my issue wasn't expressed well. What I meant to say was: How may I copy some text displayed on the command line to the clipboard - or to a register? Example: I do 2C-g or :file and I need a copy of the filepath. Thanks again. Now I'll have coffee. tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
