[ale] Copying from vi into another terminal

[John Wells]

Geoffrey said:
> I can, but I don't think that's the issue.  Can you do it from any other
> window?  What terminal are you using, this is from gnome-terminal, but
> I've tested it from konsole as well.

Tried it from xterm, gnome-terminal and konsole.

> What wm are you running?

Gnome/Red Hat 9

It usually pastes the last thing I copied in MozillaFirebird...

Weird.  Is there a Linux "clipboard" viewer that works with Gnome?  This
would be telling...