Re: [arch-general] Vim with X

But I think many people -- at any rate, I'm one of them -- use vim in a terminal emulator in X. We 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.