Re: Clipboard copy and paste

On Thursday, November 8, 2012 2:45:15 PM UTC-3, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Thursday, November 8, 2012 10:51:56 AM UTC-6, Ed Kostas wrote:
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> > I am trying to copy and paste things from vim into other applications. In general, there are two ways of pasting the clipboard contents. I can use Ctrl-V (Ctrl-Y in Emacs) or the central button of the mouse. The following solution works fine with the central button/wheel:
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> > In another application, one can press the central button, and voilà. For instance, in Emacs, I can press the central button, and I get the contents of the clipboard saved with "*y. However, I don't like this solution very much, since the central button is wheel in many mouses, and people can turn the wheel inadvertently. I prefer to press Ctrl-y in Emacs, or Ctrl-V in other applications (for instance, in gedit, or in this group). The problem is that Ctrl-V and Ctrl-Y do not work with the Vim "*y save register.
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> > I checked the compilation of the vim distribution I am using. Thus:
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> > ~/vim/tutor$ vim --version | grep clipboard
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> > +clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info +comments
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> > As you can see, I have +clipboard and +xterm_clipboard. Is there a way to send the contents of Vim Clipboard to Ctrl-V paste, instead of central wheel paste?
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> CTRL-V is useful, you probably don't want to remap it. Although, if you do, CTRL-Q is a synonym. See :help CTRL-V, i_CTRL-V, c_CTRL-V.
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> Pasting from the same clipboard used by the center wheel in Vim is done by selecting the * register for paste, like this:
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> "*p
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> <C-R>*
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> These are examples, as there are many paste commands in Vim that do something slightly different. The key is to select the * register with "* first.
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> Note, it IS possible to remap CTRL-V to something like "*p, but not really recommended.

Hi, Ben.

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.

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