Re: vim: how to copy selected text from vim running inside a remote ssh session, to local windows clipboard

On Thursday, June 5, 2014 11:03:49 PM UTC-5, ping wrote:
> experts:
> not sure this was asked before...
> I run ssh into remote pc(linux) from local PC (windows),
> run vim from within ssh
> then select some text from vim
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> now I want to paste these text into local clipboard (so I can paste into outlook, etc).. is there any good way to implement this?
> I currently rely on dropbox to sync all change and open the file with notepad...but really want to know of any other better solutions..

You can run an X server on your Windows machine. For example: Xming, X-Win32, something in Cygwin, Xceed, and I'm sure there are others. Then you just need a Vim running on your server with X clipboard support (or run gvim).

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