Re: How to configure vim to use the mouse, AND to copy and paste

Hi,

first of all thanks for a reply, although it does not answer all of my question.

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 18:05, Ven Tadipatri <vtadipatri@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, this doesn't answer the question I asked earlier about using
visual mode to copy and paste.
But if you use xclip to copy,

(what is xclip???)
 

and ctrl+shift+v to paste, then setting
mouse=a, you can get all the functionality you want. It does take some
getting used to probably, since you can't use the middle mouse button
to paste.

  If you can find a way to copy that's not as messy as putting this
in your .vimrc, please let me know:
vmap <C-c> :<Esc>`>a<CR><Esc>mx`<i<CR><Esc>my'xk$v'y!xclip -selection c<CR>u
 

 

with this unreadable mix of letters and characters, I am now able to use functionalities 1 and 2 of my have-to list (with having the shift key to press in addition). I still cannot paste text, which I have marked with the mouse, to vim or a different editor.

Maybe there is still a way to configure vim in the right way? Are no vim specialists on this list?


Thanks
  Alex

Thanks,
Ven

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Alexander Dietz
<alexanderdietz1@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have questions regarding vim and how to enable the mouse in it. There were
> some other threads about that issue, but I could not find a solution for my
> problem.
>
> I would like to have the following actions enabled in vim:
>
> 1. To go to some place, I click the left mouse key
> 2. To copy text TO the vim editor by using the middle-click of the mouse,
> (text which I have marked before in some other window (browser, emacs,
> xterm))
> 3. To copy text FROM the vim editor, by selecting the text with the left
> mouse button (left-click, hold down, select text, release left button), so I
> can paste it to somwehere else with the mouse middle button
> 4. To copy text and paste TO and FROM vim
>
> I have the following content of my .vimrc:
>
> :set mouse=r
> :set selectmode+=mouse
>
> With that configuration, the points 2-4 are working.
> When I change mouse=r to mouse=a, then points 1 AND 3 are working, but I
> have to press the shift key in addition. But I cannot use the mouse to go
> somewhere else in vim.
>
> A suggestion was to use mouse=ar, but this enable only the first point.
>
> So how is it possible to configure vim to use all four points 1-4?
>
>
> Thanks
> Alex
>

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