On 2012-04-18, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > Thank you everyone for the help! > > On 18 April 2012 18:25, John Beckett wrote: > > The following writes @@ (that is, @") to /dev/clipboard: > > :call writefile(split(@@, "\n"), '/dev/clipboard') > > Works like a charm. > > > However, what the OP should do is build Vim with clipboard > > support (using :version should show "+clipboard"). > > Unfortunately the "+clipboard" for Cygwin uses the X-Windows > clipboard, not the native Windows clipboard. In this case > /dev/clipboard is a way to access the native Windows clipboard within > Cygwin. It has the benefit of understanding utf-8 which > putclip/getclip currently do not.
Does anyone know what ever happened to the vim_cygwin_clip_patch? It let Vim for Cygwin use the Windows clipboard. It was originally posted to the vim-dev list by Frodak Baksik in February, 2007. Resurrecting or redeveloping that is probably the right way to fix this issue. 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
