On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 11:43:01 AM UTC-5, DrChip wrote: [...] >> If you happen to be using utf-8, you might want to use \u2502 >> instead of a |. > > Hmmm... That looks way better than the vertical bar on the keyboard. > Unfortunately, it seems to have compatibility problems when dealing > with other apps in a cygwin/Xwindows/Windows7 environment. For > example, it doesn't succesfully transfer into the cut/paste buffer in > a way that allows to be transferred to Windows (register * or > register +). It won't paste into this grouples composition window, > nor into even notepade. However, it successfully transfers into > those registers for asting within another vim buffer. > It's been a long time since I left Windows, but can you set some Unicode locale in your "local settings"? I think it means "codepage 10646" or "codepage 106461" — or something equally weird. With that kind of setting, it ought to be possible for Windows to transfer the U+2502 codepoint correctly via the clipboard — if both the sender and the receiver of the data know which clipboard flavour to use.
Within a single Vim instance, there is no such problem, because Vim doesn't need the clipboard (registers + and * which are different on X11 and identical elsewhere); it uses its own registers (usually register "). As long as you use UTF-8 (or GB18030) as 'encoding', any Unicode character can be represented in Vim memory and transfered around by yank/delete/put (which are, of course, the "Vim names" for copy/cut/paste). Best regards, Tony. -- -- 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 because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
