Hi, On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Ajay Jain <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am facing quite some issues with copy paste on vim. I expected >> things to work nicely in the default state, but I am wrong as I >> believe we need to do some key mappings. My .vimrc is simple: It only >> has the following line: >> source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim >> However, the issue is that copy paste from Vim to Xterm does not work >> fine. I looked over the Internet to find that I need to add set >> mouse=r so that the copy paste with mouse works properly. Now I see >> that copy paste Using Ctrl-Insert, Shift-Insert, Ctrl-Delete does not >> work properly. >> Could somebody please help me with the basic settings? What all is >> required to be put in addition to the default so that copy paste using >> Ctrl/Shift/Insert & Mouse works seamlessly? > > I am unable to copy anything from vim to xterm now. Copy /Paste using > mouse OR keyboard shortcuts is not working. I urge for any pointers .. > I have gone through much information over the Internet, but nothing > seems to work. Please provide some pointers. >
What is the output of the following Vim command? :version You should see +xterm_clipboard in the above output to access the clipboard from Vim. To copy/paste from Vim using the clipboard, you don't need any special settings or external utilities. You can read the following help topics for more information: :help 'clipboard' :help x11-selection :help clipboard :help 'go-a' :help 'mouse' :help xterm-copy-paste :help 9.3 - Yegappan -- 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
