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Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim

From debian-user@howorth.org.uk
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim
Date 2024-02-06 16:40 +0100
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Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 10:28:53PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> > Continuing from above in Vim in Insert mode, if I then
> > simultaneously press the Ctrl, Shift, and v keys, and then release
> > all keys, Vim inserts the contents of the clipboard; as confirmed
> > by:
> > 
> >     xclip -o -selection CLIPBOARD  
> 
> How's that possible?  Are you running a GUI version of vim (gvim?)
> instead of running vim in a terminal?  Or are you using an exotic
> terminal?

Wow, thanks! I learned something new.

> In xterm and urxvt, Ctrl-Shift-v is identical to Ctrl-v ("literal
> next"), so there's no way vim can distinguish the two.  And yes, I
> tested it just to be sure.  In both xterm and urxvt, vim, insert
> mode, Ctrl-Shift-v acts exactly like Ctrl-v.

So it does. How bizarre! Makes vim in an xterm unusable.

> If you're using a terminal that isn't xterm, please specify which.
> This applies in general to *any* issue that involves exotic key
> combinations, because different terminals handle them differently.

I know I don't like xterm so I never use it. I mainly use lxterminal
and sometimes gnome-terminal but they both must be 'exotic' since they
behave as David said.

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Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-06 00:20 +0100
  Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-02-06 00:50 +0100
    Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-06 01:30 +0100
  Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-02-06 02:10 +0100
    Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-06 08:10 +0100
      Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-02-06 12:40 +0100
        Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-06 13:50 +0100
        Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-07 08:10 +0100
          Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-07 13:30 +0100
            Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-07 13:50 +0100
  Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-06 04:10 +0100
    Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-06 07:30 +0100
      Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-06 13:30 +0100
        Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-06 15:40 +0100
          Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-06 16:00 +0100
            Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-06 18:10 +0100
              Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-02-06 18:40 +0100
                xterm PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection [was: Re: Copy from Firefox and  paste into Terminal with Vim] Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-07 04:30 +0100
                Re: xterm PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection [was: Re: Copy from  Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim] Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-02-07 13:30 +0100
                Re: xterm PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection [was: Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim] Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-02-07 14:20 +0100
                Re: xterm PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection [was: Re: Copy from  Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim] debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-02-07 21:20 +0100
                Re: xterm PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection [was: Re: Copy from Firefox  and paste into Terminal with Vim] Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-07 18:10 +0100
                C-Ins vs. C-c [was: xterm PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection] Firefox  and paste into Terminal with Vim] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-02-07 19:50 +0100
        Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-02-06 16:40 +0100
          Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-06 17:10 +0100
        Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-07 08:30 +0100
      Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-06 15:30 +0100
        Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-07 09:30 +0100
  Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-02-06 06:50 +0100
    Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-06 08:10 +0100
      Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-02-06 09:00 +0100
      Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Klaus Singvogel <deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> - 2024-02-06 09:20 +0100
        Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-07 08:30 +0100
    Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-02-06 14:50 +0100
      Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-07 08:50 +0100
  Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Ralph Aichinger <ra@h5.or.at> - 2024-02-06 13:00 +0100
    Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-06 15:40 +0100
      Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-02-06 15:40 +0100
      Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Ralph Aichinger <ra@h5.or.at> - 2024-02-06 19:00 +0100
        Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-07 04:30 +0100
    Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-07 08:40 +0100
  Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-07 07:40 +0100

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