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

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.

regards,
Christian

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