* Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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 > > -- > Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 > My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. -- Douglas Adams Moshe Kaminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home: 08-9456841
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