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

[Raphael Groner]

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<phil(a)pricom.com.au>
>  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.

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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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(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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