On Monday, August 13, 2012 10:45:11 AM UTC-4, ping wrote: > recently I found xterm and google search give me some quite good-working > configs, it looks for me xterm is like-weight, fast, good-looking, > vim-friendly terminal that I should give it a trial.
vim does have xterm-specific features which don't work for other terminals, e.g., the termcap-query feature that lets it get the correct escape sequence for function keys even if the terminal description happens to be incorrect. > however, an obvious issue that I encounters so far, and I haven't found > a good solution from google so far, is how to copy/paste text from xterm > (not from within vim running inside), via keyboard shortcut, so I can > interact with other Apps (like thunderbird email). For instance http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588785 -- 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
