Hmm...I don't know if that's always an option. Sometimes we're on a machine where we don't have root access, so we don't have the privileges to reinstall vim. Or admins may decide that there is a standard version of vim and they don't want to change it. Telling someone to reinstall vim isn't a solution, it's hiding the real problem which is why doesn't vim automatically have clipboard support? Why is it "optional"? In any case, I think if xclip is available, that can integrate with the clipboard, so you just set up a keyboard shortcut in your local .vimrc. But xclip doesn't work well on Windows. So I think if you are on a Windows system, where you don't have the ability to reinstall vim, how can you do a simple thing like "copy text from vi and paste it in an external app". If you're using vi from within a putty terminal, putty has copy and paste built into it I believe. Any other suggestions?
Thanks, Ven On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:39 AM, ConcreteVitamin <[email protected]> wrote: > Following your advice I installed vim-gnome. And problem fixed! > > Thanks! :) > > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 2012-01-11, ConcreteVitamin wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I'm using Vim under Ubuntu's Gnome Terminal (the command "vim"). I >> > selected >> > some text in visual mode, then "+y, but when I right clicked on >> > Firefox's >> > address bar, the "paste" option is not available. What's the problem? >> > And how >> > to fix it? >> >> The version of vim that you are using was probably not compiled with >> support for X11 or the clipboard. You can check this by executing >> >> :version >> >> Ubuntu has several packages that include vim: >> >> package binary X11 >> --------- ------------------ --- >> vim /usr/bin/vim.basic No >> vim-tiny /usr/bin/vim.tiny No >> vim-gnome /usr/bin/vim.gnome Yes >> >> One of these is linked to /usr/bin/vim via /etc/alternatives/vim. >> You can find out which by executing >> >> ls -l /etc/alternatives/vim >> >> I think that all you have to do is install the vim-gnome package and >> you'll get what you want. >> >> 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 > > > -- > 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 -- 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
