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

Ben Fritz wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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).
>
An alternate procedure would be to run vim locally and use netrw to work
with the remote machine (vim scp://user@remotemachine/path/file). That
way you could use the local clipboard.

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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