Thursday, August 15, 2019

Re: Persist Clipboard after Exiting Vim

Thank you Tony Mechelynck, Eli the Bearded, and John Little. This does stem from a fundamental misunderstanding of the X clipboard. Thank you for fortifying that understanding. I will proceed to install a clipboard manager.


MCP


On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 8:56 PM John Little <john.b.little@gmail.com> wrote:
Eli the Bearded explained why the clipboard is "being cleared".

TL;DR install a clipboard manager.

The solution for most users on X is the DE runs a clipboard manager.  I presume that your Arch install is bare bones and you haven't installed one yet.  The Arch wiki entry for clipboard https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Clipboard lists a few options.  Such a manager watches the clipboard and copies it, so that when vim exits it is still available.  "full featured" managers have things like a history, allowing some manipulation, and knowing about URLs.



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