Re: Can I copy/yank into and out of vim?

On 04/03/23, Tony Mechelynck (antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com) wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 3:32 AM Angel M Alganza <ama@ugr.es> wrote:

> The reason for this dfference in behaviour is that xterm doesn't use
> the X11 clipboard (register + in Vim) but only the X11 selection
> (register * in Vim). In almost every other GUI, including gvim, you
> can use Edit→Cut, Edit→Copy and Edit→Paste to pass text from one
> program to another via the clipboard, but in xterm you need to have
> some text selected (and, in Vim, written to "*) then the middle mouse
> button pastes into xterm; conversely, IIUC anything selected in xterm
> will appear in Vim's * register and can be pasted with "*p or with
> <MiddleMouse>.

On my urxvt console I seem to be able to copy and paste with control-alt-c and
control-alt-p. Otherwise the middle button works pretty well for pasting
console selected text.

Rory

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