On 14 Feb 2009, at 05:03, daid kahl wrote:
Is there any way to access the vim buffers from other than vi?
Using Konsole, if I want to copy something from vim I have to
highlight with the mouse and right click, which is annoying. I
really just want a better way to copy from Konsole that doesn't
involve right click. At least shift+insert works for pasting from
elsewhere...
Do you want to copy without using right-click (i.e. copy upon mouse
select) or copy without using the mouse at all? I assume the
latter, but that was not my initial reaction when I read "I really
just want a better way ... that doesn't involve right click".
Haha, either one. I guess ideally it would be neat to be able to
copy from Konsole without using the mouse at all, but I'd settle for
mouse highlight and keystroke. Since I use a laptop with a
touchpad, the highlighting isn't a huge hand motion away from the
keyboard. Though, strtictly speaking, this thread is on vim, and I
like to copy from vim more than Konsole anyway (except for like
compile bugs, which I guess I could access through vim and the log
files).
I can certainly answer copying using mouse but without needing to click.
I started to write this before I realised the other possibility:
IMO terminal emulators should copy on selection, as was the
traditional
X11 style. This is clearly undesirable behaviour in most any other
application - in a word-processor or email program you may want to
highlight a selection of text which you want to paste over, and
it's no use trying that when doing so overwrites the clipboard -
but that doesn't ever apply to terminal applications.
Surely Konsole should offer a copy-upon-selection option?
I then realised that it was daft to ask this question without Googling
it and quickly found this thread:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/718984.html
The last post gives the answer, I think.
It must surely be possible to access the clipboard API at the command
line & create a vim command that passes the highlighted text to it,
but I have no idea how.
Stroller.
