Re: Cygwin gvim needs weird ritual to past from Windows clipboard

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Christian Brabandt
<cblists@256bit.org> wrote:
> On Tue, January 22, 2013 09:36, Gary Johnson wrote:
>> On 2013-01-22, Christian Brabandt wrote:
>>> On Tue, January 22, 2013 06:03, AndyHancock wrote:
>>> > I installed cygwin's gvim on Windows 7. I found that pasting
>>> > from the Windows clipboard into gvim doesn't work by clicking
>>> > the middle mouse button unless I go through a weird ritual that
>>> > I discovered by accident. If I don't do this, I get "E353:
>>> > Nothing in register *".
>> [...]
>>
>>> You might be interested in the cygwin_clipboard patch, that is
>>> floating around vim_dev and just recently was updated to work with
>>> recent Vim versions:
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/msg/b9fa96cceeb03518
>>>
>>> If you try the patch, please report there if it works or if you
>>> encounter some problems. This way, we might eventually get this
>>> patch included into Vim source.
>>
>> Andy can certainly try this patch, but I thought it applied only to
>> the Cygwin console vim.
>
> I honestly don't know. I thought, it works for all Cygwin versions.

The thread doesn't exactly describe the symptom being addressed.

Since this is cygwin's gvim, I'm wondering if I should be considering a patch?

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