On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 00:20 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote: > Hello, > > I was looking for a method to send text from a vim buffer to the system > clipboard. I came across this[1]. > > The fedora Vim package has clipboard facility disabled: > > [ankurGuest@070905042 PhD]$ vim --version | grep -i clipboard > -clientserver -clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info > +comments > -xterm_clipboard -xterm_save > > Ubuntu apparently has a package vim-full where the clipboard facilities > etc. is enabled. Is there a similar package in Fedora? I'd really like > to stick to fedora packages. Is there a reason why this is turned off? > > Thanks, > Regards, > Ankur > > [1]http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/sorting-in-vi-editor-and-copying-to-clipboard-806250/ > Hello, Well, I went hunting, and came up with this. (problem solved btw) gvim is compiled with the clipboard options enabled, therefore instead of using vim, use "gvim -v filename" then, for example, to copy the entire file to the system clipboard, go -> gg"+yG "+ here is the register that holds the system buffer and is what works on gnome-terminal. for xterm, you can use * instead of +. Thanks, regards, Ankur -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
