Monday, August 13, 2012

Re: vim: xterm copy&paste via keyboard

On Monday, August 13, 2012 10:45:11 AM UTC-4, ping wrote:
> recently I found xterm and google search give me some quite good-working
> configs, it looks for me xterm is like-weight, fast, good-looking,
> vim-friendly terminal that I should give it a trial.

vim does have xterm-specific features which don't work for other terminals,
e.g., the termcap-query feature that lets it get the correct escape sequence
for function keys even if the terminal description happens to be incorrect.

> however, an obvious issue that I encounters so far, and I haven't found
> a good solution from google so far, is how to copy/paste text from xterm
> (not from within vim running inside), via keyboard shortcut, so I can
> interact with other Apps (like thunderbird email).

For instance
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588785

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