Vim: how to have the "-xterm_clipboard" option working

jayhel · 04-04-2014, 03:43 PM

Although the Vim --"huge" version-- installed in Slackware is full of arguably usefull options, one of the most usefull one --xterm_clipboard-- is unfortunately missing.
The question is:

How to recompile vim to include this option?

Thank you for your help

jayhel · 04-05-2014, 01:24 PM

I found an alternative: gvim to vim
Gvim has the -xterm_clipboard option enabled.
So I use gvim instead if vim.
And the question is SOLVED.
No need to recompile vim (quite a job...)

dugan · 04-05-2014, 08:33 PM

I always recompile vim. I add the --with-x and --enable-rubyinterp switches. I didn't know about the --xterm_clipboard switch; thanks for that.

To do it, you just use any ftp client to download source/ap/vim from any mirror, edit the vim.SlackBuild and, optionally, the gvim.SlackBuild files, and then run them: vim first, then gvim.