On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 3:32 AM Angel M Alganza <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2023-03-04 01:08, K otgc wrote: > > Hello, I would like to copy/yank text from vim out to other programs > > like > > dpaste or Google Docs. > > I would also like to coy/yank text from external programs like website > > text > > into vim. > > I can manually highlight external program text with my mouse, copy and > > then > > insert into vim, but maybe there's a vim script for this? > > I use Shift+Insert (in insert mode in Vim) to do just that. As far as I > can tell it works everywhere, although what's inserted in xterm and the > rest of X programs is different. Probably Shift+Inserts uses a different > "clipboard" for xterm and for everything else in X.
The reason for this dfference in behaviour is that xterm doesn't use the X11 clipboard (register + in Vim) but only the X11 selection (register * in Vim). In almost every other GUI, including gvim, you can use Edit→Cut, Edit→Copy and Edit→Paste to pass text from one program to another via the clipboard, but in xterm you need to have some text selected (and, in Vim, written to "*) then the middle mouse button pastes into xterm; conversely, IIUC anything selected in xterm will appear in Vim's * register and can be pasted with "*p or with <MiddleMouse>. Best regards, Tony. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CAJkCKXt1j4wYTX-ipwHQp_dTUK77JSZH4dSK4Cd_0fHAYuaz_w%40mail.gmail.com.
