vim + clipboard facilities : turned off? How does one enable them?

[Ankur Sinha]

On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 00:20 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was looking for a method to send text from a vim buffer to the system
> clipboard. I came across this[1]. 
> 
> The fedora Vim package has clipboard facility disabled:
> 
> [ankurGuest at 070905042 PhD]$ vim --version | grep -i clipboard
> -clientserver -clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info
> +comments
>  -xterm_clipboard -xterm_save
> 
> Ubuntu apparently has a package vim-full where the clipboard facilities
> etc. is enabled. Is there a similar package in Fedora? I'd really like
> to stick to fedora packages. Is there a reason why this is turned off?
> 
> Thanks, 
> Regards,
> Ankur
> 
> [1]http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/sorting-in-vi-editor-and-copying-to-clipboard-806250/
> 

Hello,

Well, I went hunting, and came up with this. (problem solved btw)

gvim is compiled with the clipboard options enabled, therefore instead
of using vim, use "gvim -v filename"

then, for example, to copy the entire file to the system clipboard, go
-> gg"+yG 

"+ here is the register that holds the system buffer and is what works
on gnome-terminal. 

for xterm, you can use * instead of +.

Thanks,
regards,
Ankur