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edison Chen
edison Chen

Reputation: 49

How to copy in the vim to gnome desktop

As the title, I use archlinux and installed Gnome.I want to copy the contect to Google Chrome, how can I do?

I have tried "+y or "*y but didn't work. Maybe I should recomplied it but I don't know how to do it.

Can somebody helps me?
Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 84

Answers (2)

grochmal
grochmal

Reputation: 3027

There are a couple of inconsistencies between clipboards on Desktop machines, therefore vim has two registers: * and +. Gnome shall use the clipboard at the + register, and "+yy (two yankes) and "+p do work on my archlinux in a GTK environment.

You can chek if your vim has the clipboard feature compiled in (community package on archlinux has it)

$ vim --version | grep clipboard
+clipboard       +insert_expand   +path_extra      +toolbar
+eval            +mouse_dec       +statusline      +xterm_clipboard

(if either -clipboard or -xterm_clipboard appears you have a vim without clipboard support)

Arch Linux specific

In archlinux you need the packages extra/gvim and extra/vim-runtime to get the vim version with the clipboard registers compiled in. Note that extra/gvim conflicts with extra/vim but there is nothing to worry, extra/gvim comes with /usr/bin/vim which works without an X11 display.

Also, we do have a vi and vim section of the site. Question like this one are better asked there.

Upvotes: 1

goatcheese90
goatcheese90

Reputation: 9

"y" copy is internal to vim, it does not work with your X clipboard, try selecting the text you want to copy, and then pressing Shift+Ctrl+C

Upvotes: 1

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