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.
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