----- Original Message -----
From: "Ujjal Bose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: gvim cut paste selection
On 11/8/06, Stahlman Family <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ujjal,
Although it fixed the problem (or perhaps only masked it, as the underlying problem is with Cygwin X), the patch I submitted
to
Vim was rejected. Bram maintained that since the bug pertained to Cygwin
XWindows, so should the fix. I actually did not disagree
with him on this point. The reason I had started with Vim rather than XWindows was that I was more familiar with Vim's source
code.
However, since Bram refused to incorporate the patch, I proceeded to post to
the XWindows list. It was suggested that I write a
patch and submit it. I wrote a patch, and Colin Harrison (who was more familiar with the patch submission process) tested the
patch
and submitted it to the Bugzilla bug tracking database. I also tested on my own
PC running Cygwin X and gVim compiled from unix
sources. Months after patch submission, the patch was accepted and the issue changed to FIXED / RESOLVED. I have not yet checked
to
see whether the patch has actually been rolled into the most recently released
version of XWin. You can see a full description of
the bug and how I fixed it by reading the thread below. Also, I've included the
link to the Bugzilla submission page, so you can
obtain and apply the Xwin patch if you like. Alternatively, you could obtain and apply the Vim patch, but since it's not likely
ever
to find its way into Vim (and really is kind of a kludge anyways), I'd
recommend the former approach...
Hope this helps,
Brett Stahlman
Thread subject: "Serious flaw in Cygwin X clipboard integration prevents paste from
X to Windows app"
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2006-01/msg00030.html
Bugzilla entry 5375:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5735
----- Original Message -----
From: Ujjal Bose
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:16 AM
Subject: Fwd: gvim cut paste selection
Hi,
I saw ur patch that you have posted to the URL mentioned below. So will the same patch work for a unix vim or is it only for
Win32 ?
As you can see from the thread below that I am also facing similar problems , but
from Unix Gvim <----> Windows Apps.
Thanks,
Ujjal
Hi Brett,
I tested your vim patch on my machine and its working for me in Unix,
after removing the "ifdef WIN32" macros from the patch. Now cut/paste
across gvim (unix) <--> Windows apps is perfect !
As noted earlier by Brett, this may not be the best approach, but it
pretty much solves my problem :)
Ujjal,
I'm glad you got it working. Although the XWin patch is probably the ideal solution, building Vim is probably easier than
building XWin, and a working non-ideal solution is always better than none at all. However, I am meaning to download the latest XWin
source distribution to see whether my patch is in it yet. When I see that it is, I'll notify the list, since there are probably
other Vim users who have been affected by this...
Brett Stahlman
Thanks to Brett and Yakov !
-Ujjal
