Re: Stair stepping

On 03/05/10 23:22, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Tony Mechelynck<antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> According to ":help 'paste'", setting paste is not necessary in gvim,
>
> I'm not using gvim. I should have made it clearer
>
>> nor in a terminal where Vim handles the mouse clicks itself. So: are
>> you sure you're using the same terminal as a few months ago? Are the
>> mouse actions (when Vim runs in that terminal) handled by the terminal
>> or passed to Vim? Does it make a difference if you use "*P rather than
>> middle-click (or than the terminal's Edit => Paste menu if any)?
>
> I don't know what `*P' is. I use middle click.

not star-bigpee but doublequote-star-bigpee. When used at the keyboard
in Normal mode, this means "put the X selection before the cursor". Or
use a lowercase p instead of an uppercase (i.e. shifted) P to put after.
Or use + (plus) instead of * (star) between the " (double quote) and the
P or p to put from the clipboard (as with Edit=>Paste) instead of the
X11 selection (as with middle-click). (Note: Vim terminology uses "put",
"yank" and "delete" instead of "paste" "copy" and "cut" respectively.
Any register can be involved.)

See
:help p
:help P
:help registers
:help gui-selections
:help x11-selection

>
> I do not know if the terminal has changed . I use xterms almost
> exclusively and prefer vim in an xterm... not gvim.
>
> I normally start vim in an xterm with the usual
> vim filename
>
> Typing in an xterm:
> xterm -version
> XTerm(256)

Hm. Here (on openSUSE Linux 11.2) the answer is:

X.Org 6.8.99.903(242)

But I usually use gvim, or sometimes Vim in konsole or in the pure-text
Linux console (accessed by Ctrl-Alt-F1 fot /dev/tty1 to Ctrl-Alt-F6 for
/dev/tty6, come back to X by Ctrl-Alt-F7). The latter is very handy when
I decide to boot without X (into runlevel 3 instead of the default 5)
for maximum throughput of console-only operations.

>
> Not some gnome terminal, KDE terminal or some other jive.. just a
> regular xterm.
>

Best regards,
Tony.
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