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

[Dridi Boukelmoune]

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

Best,
Dridi

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Raphael Groner <projects.rg(a)smart.ms&gt; 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(a)lists.fedoraproject.org:
> >
> > Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:23:16 +1000
> > From: Philip Rhoades&lt;phil(a)pricom.com.au&gt;
> > To:[e-mail]
> > Subject: Vim commands for copying to system clipboard but text does
> >         not show        up in Clipman
> > Message-ID: <e1c15f4923ed77da0f2408ed24e147b3@localhost>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
> >
> > 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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