[SOLVED] Copy from vim and pasting to another application

Ghost-Order · 07-22-2020, 12:18 AM

I already did my search and found 2 possible solutions that unfortunately didn't work for me.

In this video the guy solves the problem installing gvim, but when I try to do that, my terminal says to me that vim is in conflict with gvim, so I just can have either vim or gvim and I would like to continue using just vim.

This is the output:

Code:

looking for conflicting packages...
:: gvim and vim are in conflict (vim-minimal). Remove vim? [y/N]

I also found another possible solution in this Stack Overflow question, unfortunately the accepted answer doesn't work for me, or maybe I didn't understand well how I should do it.

From what I understood:
1- Enter in visual selection mode and select the text you want.
2- Press "
3- Press either * or +
4- Press y

Vim recognizes the " command but no the + or * command, so as soon as I press * or + vim stops the ... command chain? (sorry I don't know what word I could use here lol).

By "recognizing" I mean that near the bottom right corner vim shows the command that was typed.

PD: I use Manjaro, the vim I installed was from my distro repo.

scasey · 07-22-2020, 01:26 AM

Copy...highlight what you want to copy with the mouse
Paste into another application...either click on middle mouse or ctrl+v Either should work, but which depends on the app.

pan64 · 07-22-2020, 01:41 AM

when you install gvim you will have vim too, so you can safely remove that standalone vim (and also you can reinstall it if you really need that).
As it was stated you have vim-minimal installed currently which explains that behavior.

shruggy · 07-22-2020, 07:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ghost-Order

1- Enter in visual selection mode and select the text you want.
2- Press "
3- Press either * or +
4- Press y

Yep. For me, this works in Neovim, but not in Vim.

Code:

$ vim -e --cmd 'ec has("clipboard")|q'
0
$ vim --version|grep -w clipboard
-clipboard         +keymap            +printer           +vertsplit

OTOH, it works if I invoke Vim as vimx (Fedora/RHEL/CentOS-specific quirk):

Code:

$ vimx -e --cmd 'ec has("clipboard")|q'
1
$ vimx --version|grep -w clipboard
+clipboard         +jumplist          +popupwin          +user_commands

Instead of clipboard feature as compiling option, Neovim uses external clipboard providers if available. And I have many:

Code:

$ rpm -qa wl-\* tmux xclip xsel
tmux-2.7-1.el8.x86_64
xclip-0.13-9.0.20191017.8d10aec.sero1.el8.x86_64
wl-clipboard-2.0.0-2.el8.x86_64
xsel-1.2.0-26.el8.x86_64

For details, see this answer.

But I prefer using terminal facilities for this, anyway. Depending on the terminal, this may be Ctrl+Shift+C/Ctrl+Shift+V (Alacritty), or Ctrl+Ins/Shift+Ins (URxvt), or both (gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal). PuTTY/Pterm can be set to either.

rtmistler · 07-22-2020, 07:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scasey

Copy...highlight what you want to copy with the mouse
Paste into another application...either click on middle mouse or ctrl+v Either should work, but which depends on the app.

This was my thinking. Well, mine was more "What's wrong with the old 'Highlight, copy, paste'?"

But that is truly a follow-up here. Which is whether or not that option was tried, and whether or not it was evaluated as unacceptable for some reason?

Ghost-Order · 07-22-2020, 10:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scasey

Copy...highlight what you want to copy with the mouse
Paste into another application...either click on middle mouse or ctrl+v Either should work, but which depends on the app.

It doesn't work for me, as soon as I start highlighting vim enters in visual selection mode, so I select the text I want then try to paste it to firefox for instance and it doesn't work.

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

when you install gvim you will have vim too, so you can safely remove that standalone vim (and also you can reinstall it if you really need that).
As it was stated you have vim-minimal installed currently which explains that behavior.

I didn't knew about that, thank you. Now I can just remap the "+y or "*y commands to a more friendly and quickly key combination.