Re: Clipboard copy and paste

On Thursday, November 8, 2012 7:23:52 PM UTC-2, Tim Chase wrote:
> > I think that I was not clear enough. I don't want to remap
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> > Ctrl-V. What I want is to copy something to the clipboard while I
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> > am using Vim. In this case, I want to use the normal Vim commands
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> > for copying to the clipboard. For example:
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> >
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> > "*yy
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> >
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> > Then, I will go to another application. Say, I will go to gedit.
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> > While using gedit, I want to paste the contents of the clipboard
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> > (that I put there using "*yy while I was in Vim) into the gedit
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> > text. From gedit, I want to paste using Ctrl-V, instead the
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> > central whell of the mouse. It seems that Vim "*yy command has
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> > access to the central wheel clipboard, but not to the Ctrl-V
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> > clipboard. I want to know which command give access to the Ctrl-V
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> > clipboard.
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> Ah, then you want the "+ register. On X systems (Linux, BSD, etc),
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> there are two clipboards[*], one is the "primary selection"
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> clipboard, accessed with "* as you mention. This is the one that is
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> also fed by selecting things in a terminal and retrieved by using
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> the middle-mouse. The other is the "clipboard" clipboard (I can't
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> say I care much for the terminology, but that's history for you).
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> This one is accessed with vim's "+ register and is usually what
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> other applications access when doing a cut/copy/paste that you're
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> used to.
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> I've just taken to using "+ almost all the time on all platforms,
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> since that's *usually* what I mean, unless it's a rare time I want
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> to convert a primary-selection to a clipboard-selection, in which
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> case it's often easiest for me to do that with vim:
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> :let @+=@*
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> Hope that makes better sense of it,
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> -tim

Well, Tim.

I tested the "+ register and it worked as expected. On vim, I saved text into the "+ register, and recovered it on Emacs, by pressing Ctrl-Y. Thank you for your answer. This group is really good. I am learning how to use Vim really fast, thanks to the members of this group.

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