On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 09:38:11PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 06/02/2024 19:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 10:28:53PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > > Continuing from above in Vim in Insert mode, if I then simultaneously > > > press > > > the Ctrl, Shift, and v keys, and then release all keys, Vim inserts the > > > contents of the clipboard; as confirmed by: > > > > > > xclip -o -selection CLIPBOARD > > > > How's that possible? Are you running a GUI version of vim (gvim?) > > instead of running vim in a terminal? Or are you using an exotic > > terminal? > > Are you considering any vte-based terminal as an exotic one? GNOME terminal, > konsole, lxterminal, and others... They have [Ctrl+Shift+v] hotkey out of > the box in addition to [Insert]-based ones.
Anything that came from a desktop environment is pretty exotic to me. I'm pretty old-school. If xterm can't do it, then I'll call it exotic. > As to + and * registers. What kind of vim do you use? At least vim-gtk3 > provides console vim binary built with x11 support. Perhaps it is > +xterm_clipboard option. unicorn:~$ vim --version | sed -n -e 1,2p -e /GUI/p -e /clip/p VIM - Vi IMproved 9.0 (2022 Jun 28, compiled May 04 2023 10:24:44) Included patches: 1-1378, 1499 Huge version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): -clipboard +keymap +printer +vertsplit +eval -mouse_jsbterm -sun_workshop -xterm_clipboard