tnas wrote:
Hello folks,
I'm a begginer in the use of the vi, and I have a bit question: How can
I copy a text between differents windows ?
Thanks in advance.
Yank it in one and put it in the other: e.g., 5yy to yank five lines, Ctrl-W w
to switch to the next (split) window, move the cursor to where you want to
insert, p to put after the cursor line or P to put before it.
See
:help change.txt
:help windows.txt
If by "different window" you mean another program (including a different
instance of Vim) you'll have to use the system clipboard, which Vim sees as
register + : "+5yy to yank 5 lines into the clipboard, "+p to paste after the
cursor, from the system clipboard.
On Unix this means you need both a version of Vim which is aware of the X
clipboard, and a terminal which has access to it.
To see if Vim is aware of the clipboard:
:echo has("clipboard")
zero means no (not compiled with clipboard support) nonzero means yes
(clipboard support compiled-in).
A terminal which has access to it means (on Unix) an xterm, konsole, or
similar terminal emulator displaying through the X server. The "pure text"
/dev/tty console has no access to X.
Best regards,
Tony.
