Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Re: copy & paste problem in vim 7.3

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Henry Hertz Hobbit <hhhobbit@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sep 21, 2:37 pm, Hussain <dma8hm1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have compiled vim 7.3 on slackware 13.0 with
>> "--enable-gui=motif --with-x --with-features=huge ...".
>>
>> Up to now I have two problems:
>> 1- Although I can copy from an xterm window to vim window, I
>> cannot copy from vim window to an xterm window.
>> 2- In toolbar only upper half part of icons are displayed.
>>
>> Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

First of all let me thank you very much for your reply.

> By copy do you mean Ctrl-C and then a Ctrl-V? Or are you selecting
> with left mouse button and then doing a paste using a click of he
> middle mouse button?

I use the left mouse button to select and copy and the middle mouse
button to paste.

> Does it have the same behavior using both
> methods?

Ctrl-C and then a Ctrl-V does not work on my system.

> Also, I noticed Arabic so are the problems the same in both
> Arabic and English or are you editing only in English?

The problems are the same in both Arabic and English.

> I don't know what to say about the icons other than it sounds like you
> have a windowing problem. That also may be causing your other
> problems as well. Are you using twm or something else?

I am using KDE 4.2.4 on slackware 13.0 which uses lesstif 0.95.0
(a free clone for Motif).

> I cannot help
> you there. I am using OpenSuse 11.2 with Gnome and Ubuntu 10.04 with
> Gnome. I use what the people using Windows will probably use if they
> shift from Windows to Linux.

Thanks - Hussain

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