Re: Clipboard copy and paste

> I think that I was not clear enough. I don't want to remap
> Ctrl-V. What I want is to copy something to the clipboard while I
> am using Vim. In this case, I want to use the normal Vim commands
> for copying to the clipboard. For example:
>
> "*yy
>
> Then, I will go to another application. Say, I will go to gedit.
> While using gedit, I want to paste the contents of the clipboard
> (that I put there using "*yy while I was in Vim) into the gedit
> text. From gedit, I want to paste using Ctrl-V, instead the
> central whell of the mouse. It seems that Vim "*yy command has
> access to the central wheel clipboard, but not to the Ctrl-V
> clipboard. I want to know which command give access to the Ctrl-V
> clipboard.

Ah, then you want the "+ register. On X systems (Linux, BSD, etc),
there are two clipboards[*], one is the "primary selection"
clipboard, accessed with "* as you mention. This is the one that is
also fed by selecting things in a terminal and retrieved by using
the middle-mouse. The other is the "clipboard" clipboard (I can't
say I care much for the terminology, but that's history for you).
This one is accessed with vim's "+ register and is usually what
other applications access when doing a cut/copy/paste that you're
used to.

I've just taken to using "+ almost all the time on all platforms,
since that's *usually* what I mean, unless it's a rare time I want
to convert a primary-selection to a clipboard-selection, in which
case it's often easiest for me to do that with vim:

:let @+=@*

Hope that makes better sense of it,

-tim


[*]
my understanding is that there are multiple selection clipboards,
but that just about no apps actually use it



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