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Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim

From Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim
Date 2024-02-06 02:10 +0100
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David Christensen wrote: 
> Normally, I can cut and paste between Xfce desktop applications.
> 
> 
> Enter a Zip Code of "12345", highlight the first result, copy it to the
> clipboard, start Terminal, open a file with Vim, press "i" to enter insert
> mode, and paste, sometimes I see what I copied to the clipboard and
> sometimes I see nothing.
> 
> 
> I am unable to determine if the problem is Firefox, Vim, or something else.

Are you aware that there are at least three 'clipboards' here?

X11 primary selection: this usually get filled by selecting text
in a terminal. It usually gets pasted by Button 2. In vim, this
is the "+ buffer.

X11 clipboard: this usually gets filled by ctrl-c or
ctrl-shift-c or a menu "Copy". It usually gets pasted by ctrl-v
or ctrl-shift-v or a menu "Paste". In vim, this is the "*
buffer.

X11 secondary selection: you are unlikely to encounter it, but
when you do, it will be bizarre. Read: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~lindsec/secondary-selection.html

Vim can bypass a chunk of this by combining primary and
clipboard:

:set clipboard=unnamed,unnamedplus

in which case "* and "+ will be pasted simultaneously from vim.

-dsr-

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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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