On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 1:15 AM Luca Saccarola <luca.saccar...@saccarosium.com> 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, > not to mention that this approach could unlock clipboard functionality > even on a tty via tmux. > > -- Luca Saccarola
Well, I never found it really hard to compile Vim. It just takes a little getting used to. 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, at the moment I cant't find it back, or I would have attached the Linux page to this message. My "smallest" Vim — named vi — is compiled with -x11 and -clipboard, but that doesn't mean that I can't copy what it displays to the clipboard: when running in a konsole terminal, I can use the terminal's clipboard facilities transparently to vi (for instance, select an area with the mouse ( which copies the selected area to the XTERM_SELECTION i.e. the "* of my clipboard-enabled gvim) then Ctrl-Shift-C will make konsole copy the selected area to the clipboard (i.e. gvim's "+ register)). I'm not sure if konsole can paste into vi and I think it cannot cut from it though. If gpm is installed *and* your Vim instance is compiled with +mouse_gpm, you can use the mouse to move the cursor in Vim in the Linux console (which has no access to X11, remember) and even to select text within Vim (and yank, put or delete it within that single Vim instance if you hit Ctrl-O if necessary to switch from -SELECT- to -VISUAL-) but I think you cannot paste into or from other programs. Best regards, Tony. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" 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_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAJkCKXsh9SXFoiDnqNUmpugt92EtugkmOpbk0cvs9y8OejdmwA%40mail.gmail.com.
