[gentoo-user] Re: vim USE flag: vim-with-x

[Moshe Kaminsky]

* Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> [22/01/06 06:14]:
>   The one thing I find painful in my setup is copying text from the X
> session to a text session or visa versa.  I end up opening vim in X,
> saving the selected text to ~/x, switching to a text console, and then
>  :r ~/x
> in vim.  At work, where I have to use Windows (ptui) I can copy text
> from the GUI to the clipboard, {ALT-TAB} to a vim session, and paste the
> clipboard with "* even if vim is running in a textmode console.  Is
> there some similar channel for vim in linux?

If you just set DISPLAY correctly before you run vim (usually ':0.0'), 
you can do it the same. You can even use the mouse (if you use gpm)

Moshe

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