Re: Question about communication with system clipboard

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 11:01:08AM +0200, Jacek Czaja wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I 'm searching an advice on following problem: copying from vim to system
> clipboard. and then using what i copied out of vim.
>
> What works for me:
> 1) Start my gvim (configuration below) and i copy given line to * register
> 2) I switch to terminal and insert Shift+Insert and I got it pasted
> And it works like a charm.
>
> What does not work for me is:
> 1) Start gvim, copy to * register
> 2) Close gvim
> 3) try to paste what I copied to clipboard from gvim before it was closed.
>
> And this does not work. So how can I make it work for me eg. copying to
> system clipboard from vim , closing vim and then using copied value.

Star register copies into PRIMARY clipboard, accessed by middle click by
default. Shift+Insert operates with SECONDARY clipboard owned by application
and it clears with app exit.

Have you any clipboard synchronization tool running? Because Shift+Insert
should not work with "*.

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