Calvin Waterbury asked on Sunday, October 01, 2006 3:04 PM for
a "pasteboard feature".
> This is a feature that automatically captures clipboard content
> to a text file that has been designated as the "Pasteboard."
> Perhaps an example would clarify. If I had this feature
> implimented in VIM I would do the following:
>
> - Open a text ed window
> - Set it to be the "Pasteboard"
> - Switch to whatever window I want to capture (webpage text
> like a recipe, another text file, etc.) --- [1]Select the
> first text item --- [2]Copy to clipboard --- [3]Repeat [1]
> and [2] until done.
> - Go back to the "Pasteboard" window and I would see all of my
> captures neatly separated by whatever separator (a line of
> hyphens, equal signs, etc.) I had set in the "Options."
> - Turn off the "Pasteboard"
> - Save the file.
[Tony: OP is asking about copying to a VIM buffer stuff fed to
the MS Windows clipboard _not_ from other VIM buffers but
from non-vim applications.]
One way to implement this feature is by using VIM's support for
perl and the Win32::Clipboard module.
--Suresh
