Vim commands for copying to system clipboard but text does, not show up in Clipman

[Philip Rhoades]

Dridi, Raphael,

Sorry about the very slow response - other dramas to deal with 
unfortunately . . :


On 2015-08-05 22:49, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It may simply be because vim is not compiled with clipboard support on 
> Fedora:
> 
> $ vim --version | grep -e Features -e clipboard
> Huge version without GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):
> -clipboard       +iconv           +path_extra      -toolbar
> +eval            +mouse_dec       +startuptime     -xterm_clipboard


After Raphael's response but before Dridi's response, I did in fact 
confirm this - I ended up installing vim-X11 as well as vim-enhanced 
which solved the problem.  It seems like it should be an option for 
.vimrc to me . .

Thanks,

Phil.



> Best,
> Dridi
> 
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Raphael Groner <projects.rg at smart.ms> 
> wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>> 
>> your issue sounds somehow like a RFE for Clipman to monitor also for 
>> some
>> commands from cli mode, but I do not know how difficult the 
>> implementation
>> is therefore, maybe it's technically impossible. Technical background: 
>> Vim
>> has its own clipboard manager in use that does not know anything about
>> running Xorg (or Wayland) applications, so I guess the own clipboard 
>> of vi
>> as in cli mode is used. Does it work if you select text with the mouse 
>> and
>> copy by help from context menu entry or the menu of the terminal 
>> emulator
>> (xfce4-terminal)?
>> 
>> Did you check upstream for any existing issue? Otherwise, you should 
>> file a
>> RFE in rhbz and as well to upstream of Clipman (the latter is the 
>> generally
>> preferred way).
>> 
>> You could also try with GPaste (based on Gtk as well) or Qlipper (Qt 
>> based)
>> as alternatives to Clipman.
>> 
>> R.
>> 
>> 
>> Am 31.07.2015 um 14:00 schrieb xfce-request at lists.fedoraproject.org:
>>> 
>>> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:23:16 +1000
>>> From: Philip Rhoades<phil at pricom.com.au>
>>> To:xfce at lists.fedoraproject.org
>>> Subject: Vim commands for copying to system clipboard but text does
>>>         not show        up in Clipman
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>>> 
>>> People,
>>> 
>>> In Vim, these commands are supposed to copy text to the system 
>>> clipboard
>>> - but the text does not show up in Clipman:
>>> 
>>>     "+yy
>>> 
>>>     "*yy
>>> 
>>> - why doesn't this work?
>>> 
>>> In fact, rather than copying the current line as above, I want to 
>>> copy
>>> the text of a whole file which is not conveniently done by clicking 
>>> and
>>> dragging the mouse . . but I can't even get it to work on one line . 
>>> .
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Phil.
>> 
>> 
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