On 11/16/11 at 08:44am, Jason Melton wrote:
don't want gvim, but we find copying and pasting to and from the clipboard useful.
If you install gvim, you can still run "vim" in an emulator and you get
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Manolo Martínez <manolo@austrohungaro.com>wrote: the compile flags that gvim used. Which, relevant to this question include "+xterm_clipboard". gvim is not "gvim only, it's gvim AND vim.
You can then "set clipboard=unnamedplus" (or just "unnamed", or not at all, depending on your preference) and go to town.
Yes, I know. But gvim pulls in ruby and lua (does that even make sense? I swear that's what pacman asks to do), and that's a bit too much for clipboard support. I was assuming (unwarrantedly, it appears) that my profile of use of vim (in a terminal emulator, but relying on the x clipboard) was fairly standard. I stand corrected now. Manolo --