Re: Can't see my * register.

Thank you Tim Chase, i installed vim-gnome and the * reg is here
again.

I was just trying to keep away from the gtk version, anyway, the
terminal vim is working fine now.

Thank You.

Ney.

On Feb 20, 4:07 pm, Tim Chase <v...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 02/20/12 10:58, Ney wrote:
>
> > I'm on Mint 12 and using vim on gnome-terminal.
> > I can't paste the content of my clipboard into vim because the *
> > register disappeared.
> > Usually i typed "*p and the clipboard was there.
>
> Which build of Vim are you running?  This is a common symptom of
> running a stripped-down "vim-tiny", "vim-nox" or "vim-minimal"
> rather than the full build.  I think Mint is a Debian derivative,
> so you may be able to "sudo apt-get install vim-gtk" or "sudo
> apt-get install vim-gnome" to install the full variant.  If
> they're already installed, you might have to issue
>
>    for alt in vi vim editor gvim; do sudo update-alternatives
> --config $alt; done
>
> (there might be a couple other alternatives that, if you use
> them, you'd want to check).
>
> You can verify by looking at the output of ":version" for whether
> the build you're running has "+clipboard" and/or
> "+xterm_clipboard" set.
>
> -tim

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