X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4EFDB64D.90304@tlinx.org> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:02:05 -0800 From: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100228 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.24 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Double click to select within VIM behavior change References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Keith Christian wrote: > Fellow Cygwin Denizens, > > As we all know, when viewing a file with the "less" command, it's > possible to double click on text in order to select/copy, and paste > elsewhere at the command line or in another application (Word, > Notepad, etc.) > > As recently as the last month or 6 weeks, this handy "shortcut" method > of selecting text from the VIM buffer has vanished. > > It was possible to do this after issuing the ":g:" command to VIM: > > ":g:arbitrary_text" > > would display lines containing "arbitrary_text" in the VIM buffer. > > Double clicking words or lines filtered by ":g:" would select the > arbitrary_text string when it was double clicked, and it could be > pasted elsewhere in the VIM window or in any other application (Word, > Notepad, etc.) > > NOTE ---- I'm not talking about double clicking text in the VIM window > that turns on the "-- VISUAL --" selection indicator, since that > operates solely within the VIM editor, and does not allow pasting the > selected text elsewhere. --- Are you talking about vim or gvim? It sounds like you are saying you could click on arbitrary text in other programs, and gvim (vim?) would have some sort of listener attached to "appearance of new text in the cut/paste buffer", so it could scan it for the string you entered? The only place it could be likely to do that, I think, is under 'X', I'm not sure I know the answer, but am trying to understand the question... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple