On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Manolo Martínez <manolo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > 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 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.
