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

On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:44:31PM -0400, Ven Tadipatri wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Alexander Dietz
> <Alexander.Dietz72@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 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???)
>
> xclip is a utility that allows you to use the clipboard on Linux
> machines that use X11:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/xclip/

xclip lets you access the X11 clipboard on the command-line. In other
words, you can pipe text to and from the X11 selection buffer.

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