On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 15:38, Gary Johnson <garyj...@spocom.com> wrote:
> On 2012-01-29, Clark J. Wang wrote: > > On Monday, January 30, 2012 2:56:37 PM UTC+8, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > > On 2012-01-29, Clark J. Wang wrote: > > > As recommended by other people I have 'inoremap jj <ESC>' defined > in my > > vimrc > > > and it works well for most of the time. > > > > > > A few days ago when I copy-n-paste a lot of text into vim, the > result was > > > always wrong. It took me quite a while before I figured out that > there > > was a > > > substring "jj" included in the text to be pasted. For now I often > :set > > paste > > > before copying large text to avoid unexpected behavior. > > > > How are you copy-n-pasting? If you are using a vim with the X11 and > > xterm-clipboard features enabled, have mouse=a, and are pasting with > > a mouse in a suitable terminal such as GNOME Terminal or xterm, Vim > > will detect that you are pasting and disable mappings. > > > > > > I usually use vim without X11 from a terminal and the TERM var may be > set to > > linux (for Linux), dtterm (for Solaris), xterm-color (for OS X) or screen > > (within GNU screen). > > What do you mean by "a terminal"? Are you not in an X11 > environment, or are you just using a vim without X11? By "terminal" I mean a "pseudo terminal" opened by PuTTY when I ssh to a server. I seldom use X11 enviroment for work and I use gvim only on Windows. :) > If the > latter, that's your problem. Vim doesn't have to run as gvim to > take advantage of X11 features. Try using "gvim -v" instead of > "vim", with mouse=a, and see if that helps. That will give you a > terminal-mode vim with X11 features enabled. > > Copying and pasting works fine for me using either xterm or GNOME > Terminal, whether using screen or not, and whether TERM is set to > xterm, xterm-color or screen. Will try that when I use X11. Thanks for the tip anyway. > I've never used dtterm--I just built > xterm for Solaris. > Could you tell me how to build xterm for Solaris? I find TERM=xterm does not work well by default on Solaris 11 and TERM=dtterm works fine. > > Regards, > Gary > -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
