On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 5:15:31 PM UTC+13, ping wrote:
...
> I recently switch from ubuntu desktop to ubuntu server , both are 14.04.
> and I couldn't find the register * and +.
...
> although I'm a console vim user...
vim on unices uses X for the clipboard and selection. If no X server is found,
I think the * and + become synonyms for the unnamed register, and not shown in
the :registers display.
Maybe you're thinking of gpm mouse support. Install the package gpm, and with
set mouse=a in your .vimrc, a middle click does a paste, but from the unnamed
register; you still don't get a separate "* and "+ AFAICS. If you want to copy
outside of vim then paste in it,
set mouse=
or
set mouse=nvc
then in insert mode vim won't see the middle click, and you'll get gpm's
selection pasted.
For completeness, if there is an X server running on the machine where you're
using the console, you can
export DISPLAY=:0
to get vim to use it, but the default setting for the 'clipboard' option
includes "exclude:cons\|linux" which explicitly turns that off.
HTH, John
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