[ale] Copying from vi into another terminal

John Wells jb at devsea.com
Mon Sep 29 08:46:29 EDT 2003


Jim Lynch said:
> What vi?  There are several, the most common vim and nvi.
>
> I've noticed that command line vim works ok by the normal X windows
> right click, drag, release, and left click to copy.  However gvim
> doesn't.  The docs seem to indicate it should but it doesn't I'm betting
> it is a bug.


Jim,

vim via a gnome-terminal.  I've tried it in xterm as well.  I can
cut/paste with standard X to the same vi session in the same terminal, but
nothing else...



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