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
> ===========
>
> Currently in vim, on Linux, rely on X11 to interact with the system
> clipboard. This come with the limitation that vim needs to be compiled
> agaist X11. This means that the base vim package, in most distribution,
> as no way to interact with the system clipboard which is a really nice,
> sometimes essential, feature to have.
>
> If a normal user wants to have this feature they need to compile vim,
> which is not something that everyone is comfortable doing, or install
> gvim, which a lot of users don't want to have it installed.
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 would install
_one_ vim binary that is linked to several names, including vim and
gvim. The user can use vim or gvim as they choose--it's one binary
that runs with a GUI or a terminal interface depending on the name
by which it is invoked.
Alternatively, if you have a gvim on your system, you can create
a link to it named vim like this:
ln -s /usr/bin/gvim ~/bin/vim
as long as the directory containing the new vim link comes before
the directory containing your non-X11 vim in your PATH.
You could instead create an alias such as this:
alias vim='gvim -v'
Any of those will give you a vim with X11 enabled.
Regards,
Gary
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