Re: Proposal/Discussion on decoupling clipboard functionality from X11

2024-06-08 Fir de Conversatie youcai
I made some effort one year ago trying to combine pyperclip[1] -- a python clipboard library with vim and make a new plugin[2]; However, as the things went on I came to understand that a clipboard is not as simple as it seems. The clipboard itself is deeply coupled with the graphic and windowing

Re: Proposal/Discussion on decoupling clipboard functionality from X11

2024-06-07 Fir de Conversatie Enan Ajmain
On Sat, 10 Feb 2024 11:34:19 +0100 Christian Brabandt wrote: > On Fr, 09 Feb 2024, luca.saccar...@saccarosium.com wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I would like to make a proposal for decoupling the clipboard > > functionality from X11. > > > > I've study the code base for some time but I still need some

Re: Proposal/Discussion on decoupling clipboard functionality from X11

2024-02-10 Fir de Conversatie Luca Saccarola
On sab, feb 10 2024 at 11:34:19 +01:00:00, Christian Brabandt wrote: - it puts the burden to configure the clipboard to the users. Yes, I know we can ship pre-configured clipboard provider, but initially this has to be configured by each user separately (and then later eventually merged

Re: Proposal/Discussion on decoupling clipboard functionality from X11

2024-02-10 Fir de Conversatie Michael Henry
On 2/10/24 00:35, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > I used to have a HowTo page about it — two, actually, one for > Unix/Linux and one for Windows — but my ISP took down my user > site, saying "Our engineers will gladly design a user site for > you". I thought I had saved the contents somewhere, but alas, >

Re: Proposal/Discussion on decoupling clipboard functionality from X11

2024-02-10 Fir de Conversatie Christian Brabandt
On Fr, 09 Feb 2024, luca.saccar...@saccarosium.com wrote: > Hi all, > I would like to make a proposal for decoupling the clipboard > functionality from X11. > > I've study the code base for some time but I still need some help on > where and how exactly do this. > > The problem > === >

Re: Proposal/Discussion on decoupling clipboard functionality from X11

2024-02-10 Fir de Conversatie Luca Saccarola
On ven, feb 9 2024 at 23:01:50 -08:00:00, Gary Johnson wrote: There are a couple of misunderstandings here. Many distributions offer a vim compiled with the X11 feature. The name of the package may not make that clear. For example, in Ubuntu, you would install the vim-gtk package. That

Re: Proposal/Discussion on decoupling clipboard functionality from X11

2024-02-09 Fir de Conversatie Gary Johnson
On 2024-02-09, luca.saccar...@saccarosium.com wrote: > Hi all, > I would like to make a proposal for decoupling the clipboard > functionality from X11. > > I've study the code base for some time but I still need some help on > where and how exactly do this. > > The problem > === > > Curr

Re: Proposal/Discussion on decoupling clipboard functionality from X11

2024-02-09 Fir de Conversatie Tony Mechelynck
On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 1:15 AM Luca Saccarola wrote: > > > Ok, so option two for a possible solution is not really an option. > Thanks for letting me know. > > But in your reply you aren't even acknowledge the first possible > solution witch I think solve a legitimate problem in vim's usability,

Re: Proposal/Discussion on decoupling clipboard functionality from X11

2024-02-09 Fir de Conversatie Christian Robinson
Vim compiled with GPM support has mouse access if the GPM daemon is running -- Christian J. Robinson > On Feb 9, 2024, at 5:15 PM, Luca Saccarola > wrote: > >  > Ok, so option two for a possible solution is not really an option. > Thanks for letting me know. > > But in your reply you aren'

Re: Proposal/Discussion on decoupling clipboard functionality from X11

2024-02-09 Fir de Conversatie Luca Saccarola
Ok, so option two for a possible solution is not really an option. Thanks for letting me know. But in your reply you aren't even acknowledge the first possible solution witch I think solve a legitimate problem in vim's usability, not to mention that this approach could unlock clipboard function

Re: Proposal/Discussion on decoupling clipboard functionality from X11

2024-02-09 Fir de Conversatie Tony Mechelynck
On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 8:20 PM wrote: > > Hi all, > I would like to make a proposal for decoupling the clipboard > functionality from X11. > > I've study the code base for some time but I still need some help on > where and how exactly do this. > > The problem > === > > Currently in vim, o

Proposal/Discussion on decoupling clipboard functionality from X11

2024-02-09 Fir de Conversatie luca . saccarola
Hi all, I would like to make a proposal for decoupling the clipboard functionality from X11. I've study the code base for some time but I still need some help on where and how exactly do this. The problem === Currently in vim, on Linux, rely on X11 to interact with the system clipboard.