On Jul 11, 2:20 pm, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jjgod Jiang wrote (a long time ago):
> > >> Running vim under Mac OS X terminal do not support copy to/from
> > >> system clipboard currently, this patch add this feature. To have
> > >> this feature in mainstream, we receive the following benifits:
>
> > >> 1. We can copy from/to system clipboard without running GUI.
> > >> =A0 =A0(Default vim builds shipped with Mac OS X do not have GUI
> > >> =A0 =A0 enabled, so it can share this feature.)
> > >> 2. We don't need to duplicate code in GUI implementations like
> > >> =A0 =A0MacVim or vim-cocoa.
>
> > >> The clipboard handling code is derived from MacVim.
>
> > >> To use Cocoa APIs, we need to convert os_macosx.c into an Obj-C
> > >> file. Other changes are trivial.
>
> > > A few remarks were made after this patch was submitted, but I don't
> > > think I ever saw an updated patch. =A0Is it still coming?
>
> > I made the remark that it would be "nicer" to use the C-API (Core
> > Foundation) to implement Copy/Paste instead of converting os_macosx.c
> > to an Objective-C file and then using the MacVim Copy/Paste code which
> > uses the Objective-C API (Foundation).
>
> > It would not be very difficult to write such a patch but I don't think
> > anybody ever volunteered to do it. The advantages of rewriting the
> > patch are mostly aesthetic -- the functionality would be identical.
> > If you Bram can live with that then I think it is safe to merge this
> > patch (here is one of the problems though: since the patch renames a
> > whole file it is a bit tricky to review -- I believe it is fine but
> > have not checked it myself). If you would prefer not to use
> > Objective-C then it is possible to rewrite it using only C.
>
> > What would you prefer Bram?
>
> I don't know enough about the advantages and disadvantages. I think at
> least the issues with block mode should be fixed. Otherwise one can
> just as well use the clipboard throught the terminal, right?
>
> When going with Objective-C, would there be disadvantages? Some people
> who can't build the binary? Does the executable become bigger? More
> dependencies on libraries?
What would be the advantage over using:
vmap ,y y:call system("pbcopy", getreg("\""))<CR>
nmap ,p :call setreg("\"",system("pbpaste"))<CR>p
And some syntactic sugar for mapping?
-Bill
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