Well, I can't speak for you, but I've been using gvim (with GTK2 GUI) for years on X11 and for me copy, cut and paste work with no problems. The workings of the X11 clipboard may have to need some getting used to for someone raised and bred on Windows, though, because it doesn't work exactly the same way as the Windows clipboard.
- Of course, your Vim has to be compiled with +clipboard but if it's a GUI it usually is. - There are actually more than one separate "clipboards" on X11. One of them is called "selection" in the X11 documentation: it is set by most programs (but usually not Vim) as soon as you select something visually and its contents can be pasted by a middle-click. To Vim, this is the * (star) register, set by "*d "*y or :d* :y* and pasted by "*p "*P or :put * This is usually not the one I use, except when I need to paste into xterm, which doesn't know the other one. - The other one is called "clipboard" in the X11 documentation and it is used in all programs I know (including gvim) by Edit→Copy, Edit→Cut and Edit→Paste. In addition, Vim knows it as the + register and uses it with "+y "+d "+p "+P :y+ :d+ and :put + - These two registers work best in gvim because when running Vim (compiled, of course, with +x11 +clipboard) in an X11-aware terminal, the terminal may (depending on which terminal application you are using) steal selections and middle clicks and not let Vim see them. In addition, usually neither of them works in tty1..tty6 (usually accessed by Ctrl-Alt-F1..Ctrl-Alt-F6 and left by Ctrl-Alt-F7) because these "Linux consoles" have no connection to the X11 server. - When copying, cutting and pasting (sorry, in Vim language it is yanking, deleting and putting, respectively) within a single instance of Vim it is possible (and I recommend) to bypass the X11 selection & clipboard completely, and use either the default register for temporary use, or the 26 lettered registers "a to "z for stuff you may want to remember, and put again and again at different places in different edit files. I also find it handy to reserve register q for macros, started (in that case) by qq then doing something in Normal mode, and an additional q stops the registering. - I usually set the 'clipboard' option to just "exclude:cons\|linux" i.e. either :set cb-=autoselect or :set cb=exclude:cons\\\|linux (see :h option-backslash about the backslash-escapes) so Vim will leave the X11 selection well enough alone unless I explicitly say I want to use it. For the same reason I keep the a and P flags out of 'guioptions' (in my case I use :set go=!cgimrLtTp but YMMV). 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.
