On 30/03/10 12:21, Delyan Kalchev wrote:
I have a bit strange problem. CTRL-C does nothing (just deselects the
selected text and does not copy anything, and does not change the
current content of the clipboard) when used in gvim, while CTRL-V and
CTRL-X work just fine. When I had used gvim in the past I remember (or
maybe I'm wrong) it has been working correctly.
But when vim is executed in the gnome-terminal CTRL-C works perfectly
and it is not because of any help form the gnome-terminal. I cannot
explain it currently and can't solve it. So I need some help.

I am using Ubuntu 9.10 with vim installed from the official repo:
version 7.2.245 or as Ubuntu names it - 2:7.2.245-2ubuntu2

Here is my .vimrc:

set nocompatible
source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim
behave mswin

set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set expandtab
set shiftround
set hls
set wildmenu
set showcmd
set showmatch
set ignorecase
set mouse=a
set background=dark

set list listchars=tab:»-,trail:·,extends:>,precedes:<

match ErrorMsg '\%>80v.\+'

let NERDTreeMouseMode=1

let g:netrw_browse_split=4
let g:netrw_hide=0

And here is my .gvimrc:

colorscheme desert
set guifont=monospace\ 13

Thanks


Using Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X and Ctrl-V for copy, cut and paste has nothing to do with ":behave mswin" (which is just a kind of abbreviation for ":set selectmode=mouse,key mousemodel=popup keymodel=startsel,stopsel selection=exclusive"), it has everything to do with sourcing mswin.vim (which you also do in your vimrc). It ought to work even in gvim, unless something else is at work.

To see if something else is overriding mswin.vim's mapping, try

        :verbose map <C-C>

in a running gvim.

In any case I don't recommend sourcing mswin.vim, which masks useful Vim key bindings; instead, in Vim it helps to keep in mind that the clipboard is "register-plus" and to use the following:

- To move data to and from the clipboard, for copy / cut / paste to and from other applications:

Normal commands
        "+x                delete (cut) one character to the clipboard
        "+d{motion}        delete to the clipboard
        "+dd               delete <count> lines to clipboard
        {Visual}"+d        delete selection to clipboard
        "+y{motion}        yank (copy) to the clipboard
        "+yy               yank <count> lines to the clipboard
        {Visual}"+y        yank selection to clipboard
        "+P                put (paste) clipboard before cursor
        "+p                put clipboard after cursor
Ex-commands (always linewise)
        :[range]yank +
        :[range]delete +
        :[range]put +
which can be abbreviated to :y :d and :pu respectively. For :d and :y the [range] is the set of (consecutive) lines to be cut or copied, for :put the [range] is the single line after which to paste (or $ for "after last line" or 0 for "before first line" or omitted for "after current line" etc.); or with bang (i.e. :put! +) it is the line before which to paste.

In gvim you can also use the Edit=>Copy, Edit=>Cut and Edit=>Paste menu items.

If you hit the colon key in Visual mode, Vim prefills the command-line with :'<,'> which means "from first to last line of the latest Visual selection" -- just the range that you need in this case.

To move data within a single Vim, the clipboard isn't needed (and then it works even in the Linux console, which has no access to X): normally one would use the "unnamed register" by omitting the "+ before Normal commands or the + after Ex-commands. Or you can use any one of the 26 "letter registers" by replacing the plus sign by a lowercase letter, or, for yank and delete, by an uppercase letter to append to the register instead of replacing its contents.


Notes:
- This vimrc will give you errors if ever you try to use it in a Vim version missing one or more of the +eval +mouse +wildmenu features, and this gvimrc will give an error if used in a gvim with any GUI other than GTK2; but I suppose you don't mind these limitations -- at least for now. - If 7.2.245 is the "latest" Vim Ubuntu has to offer, then they are taking their time upgrading: the latest "official" patchlevel is currently 7.2.411 -- IOW you're missing almost half the bugfixes already published for Vim 7.2; see http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.2/README for a list of what these patches are all about, and (if desired) http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm for a HowTo page about compiling Vim on Unix/Linux. Also http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Build_Vim_with_your_name_included which is less detailed than the above-mentioned HowTo but has a paragraph about building Vim on Ubuntu.




Best regards,
Tony.
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