Thank you Tim Chase, i installed vim-gnome and the * reg is here again. I was just trying to keep away from the gtk version, anyway, the terminal vim is working fine now.
Thank You. Ney. On Feb 20, 4:07 pm, Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/20/12 10:58, Ney wrote: > > > I'm on Mint 12 and using vim on gnome-terminal. > > I can't paste the content of my clipboard into vim because the * > > register disappeared. > > Usually i typed "*p and the clipboard was there. > > Which build of Vim are you running? This is a common symptom of > running a stripped-down "vim-tiny", "vim-nox" or "vim-minimal" > rather than the full build. I think Mint is a Debian derivative, > so you may be able to "sudo apt-get install vim-gtk" or "sudo > apt-get install vim-gnome" to install the full variant. If > they're already installed, you might have to issue > > for alt in vi vim editor gvim; do sudo update-alternatives > --config $alt; done > > (there might be a couple other alternatives that, if you use > them, you'd want to check). > > You can verify by looking at the output of ":version" for whether > the build you're running has "+clipboard" and/or > "+xterm_clipboard" set. > > -tim -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
