Re: Cygwin gvim needs weird ritual to past from Windows clipboard

On Tue, January 22, 2013 06:03, AndyHancock wrote:
> I installed cygwin's gvim on Windows 7. I found that pasting from the
> Windows clipboard into gvim doesn't work by clicking the middle mouse
> button unless I go through a weird ritual that I discovered by
> accident. If I don't do this, I get "E353: Nothing in register *".
>
> First, I have to highlight some text using gvim.
>
> Second, I copy from Windows. Finally I paste into gvim using the
> middle mouse button (Shift-Insert never works).
>
> I am working in a locked down environment where arranging to run
> setup/install executables take months to arrange, and opening firewall
> ports might never happen. At first, I thought the problem might be
> related to an X11 error message about ports being blocked, but then I
> discovered the above recipe.
>
> Given the above clue, can anyone suggest what the cause might be, and
> possible ways to make the ritual unnecessary? Here is the diagnostic
> data that I am able to find.

You might be interested in the cygwin_clipboard patch, that is floating
around vim_dev and just recently was updated to work with recent Vim
versions:
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/msg/b9fa96cceeb03518

If you try the patch, please report there if it works or if you encounter
some problems. This way, we might eventually get this patch included
into Vim source.

regards,
Christian

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