On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:33:55PM +1000, luv-main wrote:
> I run Debian/Unstable on my laptop because I'm a DD and it helps to test all
> the new software.
>
> The new version of VIM has just been added, and I don't like it.  By default
> it uses it's own copy/paste mechanism and doesn't seem to support the system
> clipboard.  What I want is to have VIM not really know about the system
> clipboard and just use a middle-button click to paste with my Xterm (Konsole
> in this case) and have VIM just take the text.  Is it possible to do this with
> the new version of VIM?
>
> What are other good programmers editors?  I want something that will preserve
> white-space so it doesn't generate ridiculous diffs (no converting tabs to
> spaces or spaces to tabs).
>
I use Q (https://github.com/duncan-roe/q). Your .qrc can specify no tab
conversion and preserve trailing spaces, if that is what you want.

Cheers ... Duncan.
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