Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim
On 2/6/24 03:15, Dan Ritter wrote:
David Christensen wrote:
On 2/5/24 16:48, Dan Ritter wrote:
David Christensen wrote:
Please provide a URL that describes the Vim "+ and "* buffers, how to
interact with them within Vim, how to interact with them from other apps,
etc..
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-the-vi/9780596529833/ch04s03.html
Thank you for the reply. :-)
Interesting. Perhaps I should try to add buffers to my Vim skill set.
The "+ and "* buffers will get filled with primary and clipboard
selections when they occur, or you can fill them yourself so
that other applications can read from them.
In a window running Terminal running Vim in command mode:
* Pressing " then + then p seems to paste from the default Vim buffer --
what I seem to recall being referred to as the "yank buffer" (?).
* Pressing " then * then p seems to paste from the default Vim buffer.
:set clipboard=unnamed, unnamedplus
Vim says:
E518: Unknown option: unnamedplus
If I run the command:
:set clipboard=unnamed,unnamedplus
Vim does not complain, and "+p and "*p behave as above.
Perhaps my .vimrc is interfering (?). Here it is again FYI:
2024-02-06 22:50:35 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ grep -v '"' .vimrc | grep .
map q <Nop>
set autoindent
set backspace=indent,eol,start
set nocompatible
set nomodeline
set number
set numberwidth=8
set paste
set shiftwidth=4
set wildmode=longest,list
Disabling .vimrc and testing "+p, "*p, and :set
clipboard=unnamed,unnamedplus again, the behavior is the same.
makes the basic vim clipboard -- the one without a name, the one
that you use if you just dd or y a line -- be the same as the
X11 primary selection buffer.
Not on my Debian, X, Xfce, Terminal, and/or Vim.
https://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/gui.html#clipboard
In a window running Terminal running Vim in command mode with .vimrc
enabled:
* "*dd deletes the line containing the insertion point. The line is not
copied to the keyboard.
* "*p pastes the line previously deleted after the line containing the
insertion point.
The behavior is the same with .vimrc disabled.
So, my Debian, X, Xfce, Terminal, and/or Vim are not working as
documented (?).
David
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