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. Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org http://www.google.com/profiles/ir0nh34d -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
