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Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim

From David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim
Date 2024-02-07 08:10 +0100
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On 2/6/24 03:15, Dan Ritter wrote:
> David Christensen wrote:
>> On 2/5/24 16:48, Dan Ritter wrote:
>>> David Christensen wrote:
>> Please provide a URL that describes the Vim "+ and "* buffers, how to
>> interact with them within Vim, how to interact with them from other apps,
>> etc..
> 
> https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-the-vi/9780596529833/ch04s03.html


Thank you for the reply.  :-)


Interesting.  Perhaps I should try to add buffers to my Vim skill set.


> The "+ and "* buffers will get filled with primary and clipboard
> selections when they occur, or you can fill them yourself so
> that other applications can read from them.


In a window running Terminal running Vim in command mode:

* Pressing " then + then p seems to paste from the default Vim buffer -- 
what I seem to recall being referred to as the "yank buffer" (?).

* Pressing " then * then p seems to paste from the default Vim buffer.


> :set clipboard=unnamed, unnamedplus

Vim says:

E518: Unknown option: unnamedplus


If I run the command:

:set clipboard=unnamed,unnamedplus


Vim does not complain, and "+p and "*p behave as above.


Perhaps my .vimrc is interfering (?).  Here it is again FYI:

2024-02-06 22:50:35 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ grep -v '"' .vimrc | grep .
map q <Nop>
set autoindent
set backspace=indent,eol,start
set nocompatible
set nomodeline
set number
set numberwidth=8
set paste
set shiftwidth=4
set wildmode=longest,list


Disabling .vimrc and testing "+p, "*p, and :set 
clipboard=unnamed,unnamedplus again, the behavior is the same.


> makes the basic vim clipboard -- the one without a name, the one
> that you use if you just dd or y a line -- be the same as the
> X11 primary selection buffer.


Not on my Debian, X, Xfce, Terminal, and/or Vim.


> https://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/gui.html#clipboard


In a window running Terminal running Vim in command mode with .vimrc 
enabled:

* "*dd deletes the line containing the insertion point.  The line is not 
copied to the keyboard.

* "*p pastes the line previously deleted after the line containing the 
insertion point.


The behavior is the same with .vimrc disabled.


So, my Debian, X, Xfce, Terminal, and/or Vim are not working as 
documented (?).


David

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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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