Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 19:41:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: Pasting text in plain bash window In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Jelks Cabaniss wrote: > > Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > > One might try Alt-Space: "E", "P" for the Windows window with bash > > > running inside it. > > > > For the command line, the .inputrc way of setting Insert key to paste > > from the clipboard (described here earlier) is nice. But if you're in > > vi, your method is AFAIK the only way to do that. Is there a way in > > vi(m) to say "Make key X be the equivalent of Alt-space, E, P" (where > > 'key X' is, say, Ctrl-V or the Insert key)? > > > > /Jelks > > Try this: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC55 > This seems to work in vim as well. Unless, of course, you wish a > keyboard-only solution... In which case, I seem to remember there was > some discussion of the "* (clipboard) register in vim, although I couldn't > get it to work on my machine. > Igor Oops, forgot to say that you paste with the right mouse button. Sorry. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here. -- SC sig file -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/