I believe I finally determined the cause. xfce4-terminal does not emulate
the xterm behavior where it will paste from cut buffer 0 if the primary
selection is empty.
I like some of the features of xfce4 terminal (reformat on window resize,
multiple tabs), but I've decided to stick with xterm because I prefer the
fonts and the pasting behavior there.
On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM Mark Waggoner <m...@wagnell.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. To answer your questions:
>
> :echo has('clipboard')
> 1
>
> :set mouse? clipboard?
> mouse=a
> clipboard=autoselect
>
> I've now discovered that the difference is some kind of difference in the
> way xterm and xfce4-terminal do the paste, not in the way vim is working.
>
> - Open vim in xfce4-terminal
> - Select some text
> - Middle click paste into xterm works
> - Middle click paste into a different xfce4-terminal works
> - Deselect text and exit vim in the
> - Middle-click paste into xterm works
> - Middle-click paste into xfce4-terminal does NOT work
>
> This gives me some clues:
>
> :help x11-selection
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM 'Paul' via vim_use <
> vim_use@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 03:13:31PM -0800, Mark Waggoner wrote:
>> > Yes, mouse support is enabled, and that's the way I want it!
>> (mouse=a). As I noted, this works fine in xterm,
>> > but when used in xfce4-terminal, it does not.
>> > On Monday, February 24, 2025 at 6:12:26 PM UTC-8 Grant Taylor wrote:
>>
>> Just to double check, when in xfce4-terminal, what do `:echo
>> has('clipboard')` and `:set mouse? clipboard?` show?
>>
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