Re: copy vim text through screen windows

ok, that makes sense. Thanks.

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Gary Johnson <garyjohn@spocom.com> wrote:

On 2010-09-09, Moses N wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 PM, David Fishburn <dfishburn.vim@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     On 9/8/2010 7:19 AM, Moses N wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>            I use vim 7.1  with GNU screen by connecting to a development server
>         through putty. I am not able to copy vim text from one screen window
>         and paste it on the other. My vim is compiled with +xterm_clipboard and
>         i have done :set clipboard=unnamed. However i cannot access the + or
>         the * register from vim (when it runs on terminal mode). I want to know
>         if there is a way that i can move texts by accessing the registers.
>            One easy way is if i can make sure that vim accesses the same
>         viminfo registers everywhere. So that in one vim i can copy it a
>         register ( say "a) and then i can go to the next screen and do "ap.  Is
>         there anyway that can be accomplished?
>            Or another thing i can do is write the contents of a register "0 to
>         a dummy file whenever i want to move the contents across windows and
>         read whenever I so desire . So I can do ,y and it maps to writing the
>         contents of register 0 to a file. However i was not able to find a way
>         to write a register contents to a file. Any help on this is
>         appreciated.
>             The third thing is to somehow access registers + and * from the
>         terminal vim. I couldnt make this to work.
>             I saw the yankring plugin. But I felt it was a bit of a overkill
>         considering my needs.
>
>
>     There are a couple ways to address this.
>
>     You may want to consider my plugin:
>
>     YankRing.vim : Maintains a history of previous yanks, changes and deletes
>     http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1234
>
>     Which has specific support for:
>     Storing the capture text in a file allows the text to be shared easily
>     between multiple instances of Vim running in X, Windows, SSH or Screen.

> Hi Dave,
>    Thanks for that tip. Is is possible to the get just the code snippet that
> will help me copy the register contents to a file?
>    Another thing I would like to know is doesn't vim inherently support this?
> Is this not what +xterm_clipboard was supposed to do? Why then is it not
> working for me?

I believe Vim's +xterm_clipboard feature works only if Vim can
contact an X server.  You're not using an X server.

Regards,
Gary

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