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From: Andy <AndyMHancock AT gmail DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin gvim needs weird ritual to past from Windows clipboard
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:58:07 +0000 (UTC)
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Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh34d <at> gmail.com> writes:
|On 22 January 2013 11:55, Andy wrote:
|> I installed cygwin's gvim on Windows 7.  I found that pasting from
|> the Windows clipboard into gvim doesn't work by clicking the middle
|> mouse button unless I go through a weird ritual that I discovered
|> by accident.  If I don't do this, I get "E353: Nothing in register
|> *".
| 
| Vim's Wiki has a section dedicated to having Cygwin (G)Vim interact
| with the Windows clipboard:
| 
| http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Using_the_Windows_clipboard_in_Cygwin_Vim
| 
| There are a few options outlined in there that should help you out.


Alan Thompson <thompson2526 <at> gmail.com> writes:
| I always use the keyboard shortcuts to cut/paste from windows apps
| (e.g. Chrome/Firefox, etc).
| 
|  - Highlight the desired text (typically using "v" or "V" & motion).
|  - Copy using "-*-Y (double quote, asterisk, y) to yank into the
|    system clipboard
|  - Paste into the windoze app (browser, etc) using Crtl-V  as usual
| 
| Also, note that for some things I use the Cygwin version of GVim
| (have to start the X11 server first), and for some things I use the
| native Windows version of GVim.


Richard Gribble <richard <at> gandalfwizard.us> writes:
| Have you tried this from some program other than vim?  CTRL-C won't
| work from vim; you have to use:
|     "+y
| to get the highlighted text onto the clipboard, and I don't think
| the mouse is designed to do that.

Guys, thanks for your replies.  I might not have been clear enough in
my original post, but the problem is in attempting to copy from a
Windows app and pasting into Cygwin's gvim.  Correct me if I'm wrong,
but your responses (and the wiki site) are directed at copying from
gvim to Windows.

I'm pretty sure I tried Shift-Insert, and that didn't solve the
problem.  To be sure, the problem isn't *always* present, but it is
usually  present.  When it is, nothing I've tried will fix it except
the trick of highlighting arbitrary text in gvim before trying to copy
something from a Windows app.

About PC-based gvim, I also have that.  But I tend to use the gvim
text buffer as a bash command console, concocting bash code on the fly
and either shelling out to generate/filter text or writing some lines
to !bash.  It's tricky to set up vimrc so that PC-based gvim can do
this, though I think I've mostly got that problem solved.  Just as
vexing, however, is the constant need to convert the path to/from
bash/cygwin posix form to Windows form.  So when I need to bash
around, I use the cygwin gvim.


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