[nSLUG] copy/paste...web-->vim...unexpected results

[Ashley George]

As I understand it, the ctrl-c,v,insert,del functions are supposed to
use a different copy buffer than the X highlight buffer.  They are
separate mechanisms.

Cheers,

Ashley

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:25:02PM -0500, Stephen Gregory wrote:
> 
> On 4-Feb-07, at 6:21 , D G Teed wrote:
> 
> >So far, I've only seen you mention the Windows Control-C/Control-V
> >thing which Linux has supported for ease of transition.  The original
> >copy/paste in Unix is still there: left mouse highlight does a copy,
> >middle mouse button click does a paste.  That should work in any
> >X environment.
> 
> Not only is the X copy and paste method always work, the windows  
> compatibility hacks don't always work as expected. The ctrl- 
> c,v,insert,del often use a different copy buffer then the X highlight  
> (selection) buffer. To confuse matters further some X11 applications  
> such at xterm use ctrl-insert to insert the X buffer, not the copy  
> buffer used by most Gnome and KDE apps.
> 
> IIRC Vim has some settings to read from the various X buffers even if  
> Vim is running in a console window (versus gtk Vim). If you use Vim  
> often it might be worth looking up.
> 
> 
> Ctrl-c, Ctrl-v should not have been implemented in X. In console apps  
> both keys are significant. Ctrl-c is quit. Ctrl-v is often insert key  
> literally not the key function. Try the sequence ctrl-v ctrl-c on a  
> command line in xterm to see what I mean.
> 
> 
> -- 
> sg
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