On 2010-09-09, Moses N wrote: > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 PM, David Fishburn <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 9/8/2010 7:19 AM, Moses N wrote: > > Hi, > I use vim 7.1 with GNU screen by connecting to a development > server > through putty. I am not able to copy vim text from one screen window > and paste it on the other. My vim is compiled with +xterm_clipboard > and > i have done :set clipboard=unnamed. However i cannot access the + or > the * register from vim (when it runs on terminal mode). I want to > know > if there is a way that i can move texts by accessing the registers. > One easy way is if i can make sure that vim accesses the same > viminfo registers everywhere. So that in one vim i can copy it a > register ( say "a) and then i can go to the next screen and do "ap. > Is > there anyway that can be accomplished? > Or another thing i can do is write the contents of a register "0 to > a dummy file whenever i want to move the contents across windows and > read whenever I so desire . So I can do ,y and it maps to writing the > contents of register 0 to a file. However i was not able to find a way > to write a register contents to a file. Any help on this is > appreciated. > The third thing is to somehow access registers + and * from the > terminal vim. I couldnt make this to work. > I saw the yankring plugin. But I felt it was a bit of a overkill > considering my needs. > > > There are a couple ways to address this. > > You may want to consider my plugin: > > YankRing.vim : Maintains a history of previous yanks, changes and deletes > http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1234 > > Which has specific support for: > Storing the capture text in a file allows the text to be shared easily > between multiple instances of Vim running in X, Windows, SSH or Screen.
> Hi Dave, > Thanks for that tip. Is is possible to the get just the code snippet that > will help me copy the register contents to a file? > Another thing I would like to know is doesn't vim inherently support this? > Is this not what +xterm_clipboard was supposed to do? Why then is it not > working for me? I believe Vim's +xterm_clipboard feature works only if Vim can contact an X server. You're not using an X server. Regards, Gary -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
