> On 2012-04-18, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>> Thank you everyone for the help!
>>
>> On 18 April 2012 18:25, John Beckett wrote:
>> > The following writes @@ (that is, @") to /dev/clipboard:
>> > :call writefile(split(@@, "\n"), '/dev/clipboard')
>>
>> Works like a charm.
>>
>> > However, what the OP should do is build Vim with clipboard
>> > support (using :version should show "+clipboard").
>>
>> Unfortunately the "+clipboard" for Cygwin uses the X-Windows
>> clipboard, not the native Windows clipboard. In this case
>> /dev/clipboard is a way to access the native Windows clipboard within
>> Cygwin. It has the benefit of understanding utf-8 which
>> putclip/getclip currently do not.
>
> Does anyone know what ever happened to the vim_cygwin_clip_patch?
> It let Vim for Cygwin use the Windows clipboard. It was originally
> posted to the vim-dev list by Frodak Baksik in February, 2007.
> Resurrecting or redeveloping that is probably the right way to fix
> this issue.
I think I have the patch floating around here somewhere and in any
case it should still be available at [1].
Last time I tried patching on Cygwin using the simple patch[2], I
couldn't link the binary. But I haven't had time to investigate the
issue in detail, as I only seldomly have access to a Windows
development system.
[1])http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/Re-Subject-Re-vim-on-cygwin-using-win32-clipboard-td1208486.html
[2])http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/msg/d32c24ffffd503b1
regards,
Christian
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