Re: Difficulty using vim within xfce4-terminal

I believe I finally determined the cause.  xfce4-terminal does not emulate the xterm behavior where it will paste from cut buffer 0 if the primary selection is empty.  

I like some of the features of xfce4 terminal (reformat on window resize, multiple tabs), but I've decided to stick with xterm because I prefer the fonts and the pasting behavior there.  

On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM Mark Waggoner <mark@wagnell.com> wrote:

Thanks for the reply.  To answer your questions:

:echo has('clipboard') 

1

:set mouse? clipboard?

  mouse=a
  clipboard=autoselect

I've now discovered that the difference is some kind of difference in the way xterm and xfce4-terminal do the paste, not in the way vim is working.

• Open vim in xfce4-terminal
• Select some text
• Middle click paste into xterm works
• Middle click paste into a different xfce4-terminal works
• Deselect text and exit vim in the 
• Middle-click paste into xterm works
• Middle-click paste into xfce4-terminal does NOT work

This gives me some clues:

:help x11-selection

On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM 'Paul' via vim_use <vim_use@googlegroups.com> wrote:

On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 03:13:31PM -0800, Mark Waggoner wrote:
>   Yes, mouse support is enabled, and that's the way I want it!   (mouse=a).  As I noted, this works fine in xterm,
>   but when used in xfce4-terminal, it does not.
>   On Monday, February 24, 2025 at 6:12:26 PM UTC-8 Grant Taylor wrote:

Just to double check, when in xfce4-terminal, what do `:echo has('clipboard')` and `:set mouse? clipboard?` show?

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