Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Re: Installing vim 7.3 as a user - can't copy to/from system clipboard

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:48, ACR <anith.ravi@gmail.com> wrote:
>  make install DESTDIR=/home/<username>/.local

I don't think you need DESTDIR there - I tried your command and it
caused vim to be installed in
/home/<username>/.local/home/<username>/.local, which looks wrong. So,
maybe when you started vim, you actually used a different binary than
you had just compiled, because it was installed in another place.

Everything else looks ok to me.

> Now, I am unable to copy the data to/from the system clipboard.

Are you accessing the system via ssh? Make sure you use ssh -X flag to
enable X11 forwarding. Check that $DISPLAY environment variable is
set.

X11 clipboard is vim's register +, so use "+p and "+y commands to access it.

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