Re: X clipboard interaction broken?

On 4/03/11 9:14 AM, Pavel Gorshkov wrote:
> Anyone else noticing problems with X clipboard interaction in the console
> version of vim? On my FreeBSD-8.2/amd64 box, vim-7.2.446 can copy things
> (with e.g. "*yy) just fine, where both vim-7.3 and vim-7.3.138 would just
> update the '*' register but not the clipboard. All three were built with
> the same configuration parameters:
>
> --enable-perlinterp --enable-pythoninterp --enable-multibyte \
> --enable-xim --enable-fontset --disable-nls --with-features=huge
>
> and they all have 'xterm_clipboard' enabled.

Have you reviewed :help x11-selection ?

It seems to me you should be using "+ not "*.

Maybe it was an old bug that they used to behave more similarly than
they should.

Also have a look at the 'clipboard' and 'guioptions' options. Perhaps
one or more of these gives them the similarity you desire.

Ben.

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