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. Alan Thompson On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
