Re: Vim commands for copying to system clipboard but text does not show up in Clipman

Noah,


On 2015-07-31 17:08, Noah Petherbridge wrote:
> The yy command in vim isn't a system clipboard copy/paste... it only
> works within the vim session.


That is not supposed to be the case - "*" and "+" copy to the SYSTEM
clipboard:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Accessing_the_system_clipboard

Phil.


> i.e. after doing the "+yy key combo, move the insertion cursor
> somewhere else and hit "p".. it will paste the line that you were on
> when you hit the copy shortcut.
>
> On 07/30/2015 11:23 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> People,
>>
>> In Vim, these commands are supposed to copy text to the system
>> clipboard - but the text does not show up in Clipman:
>>
>> "+yy
>>
>> "*yy
>>
>> - why doesn't this work?
>>
>> In fact, rather than copying the current line as above, I want to copy
>> the text of a whole file which is not conveniently done by clicking
>> and dragging the mouse . . but I can't even get it to work on one line
>> . .
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Phil.

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E-mail: phil@pricom.com.au

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