Monday, April 23, 2012

Re: gvim auto copy selected text to clipboard

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 06:07:24PM EDT, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2012-04-23, Chris Jones wrote:

[..]

> > From a more general perspective, the OP could use the 'autocutsel'
> > program that keeps X11's clipboard & primary selection in sync'.
>
> Inspired by this discussion, I decided to install autocutsel and see
> how that works out.

Did the same but haven't looked into setting it up. Provided the tool
works as I think it does, namely that from the user's perspective it
makes the X clipboard and the PRIMARY selection behave as one, the
question is, do I really want that..? IOW, what are the implications?

It looks as if all the OP wants is X11 to work like Microsoft Windows
with just one single mechanism & clipboard..?

I rather dread revisiting these issues and fiddling with my environment
at this point.. I have about ten pages of notes on the subject that
would likely need to be updated.. I think I'll wait till I upgrade to
7.3 so I'm able to see for myself whether the new clipboard=unnamedplus
option makes any difference.

X was designed by computer scientists.. maybe that's the problem.

CJ

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