Frodak wrote:

> Hi,  One of the things I didn't like about using VIM with cygwin, is
> that although it's integrated with the posix layer, you didn't have
> access to the win32 clipboard.
> 
> I've reused the clipboard handling code in os_mswin.c and had to make
> some minor modifications in a few other files.
> 
> My goal was that if vim was compiled in the cygwin environment that it
> would include win32 clipboard handling, but if you also included X
> support that you would only have X clipboard handling.  However, I'm
> not quite there yet.  
> 
> I did test it out that I can copy UTF8 data back and for between the
> clipboard, and haven't seen any issues.
> 
> The folks on the cygwin mailing list mentioned that it would seem best
> if these changes could get put into the vim baseline, rather than a
> set of cygwin patchs.

I can include the patch if it works properly.  But it will be good to
test it for a while first.  And make sure that it doesn't cause problems
for non-cygwin builds.

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