Re: vim: register * and + missing in ubuntu1404 server

On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 5:15:31 PM UTC+13, ping wrote:
...
> I recently switch from ubuntu desktop to ubuntu server , both are 14.04.
> and I couldn't find the register * and +.
...
> although I'm a console vim user...

vim on unices uses X for the clipboard and selection. If no X server is found, I think the * and + become synonyms for the unnamed register, and not shown in the :registers display.

Maybe you're thinking of gpm mouse support. Install the package gpm, and with
set mouse=a in your .vimrc, a middle click does a paste, but from the unnamed register; you still don't get a separate "* and "+ AFAICS. If you want to copy outside of vim then paste in it,
set mouse=
or
set mouse=nvc
then in insert mode vim won't see the middle click, and you'll get gpm's selection pasted.

For completeness, if there is an X server running on the machine where you're using the console, you can

export DISPLAY=:0

to get vim to use it, but the default setting for the 'clipboard' option includes "exclude:cons\|linux" which explicitly turns that off.

HTH, John

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