Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: michael-ring@t-online.de (Michael Ring) To: Shiv Kumar Cc: Vim Mailing List , cygwin Subject: Re: Cygwin-VIM: How to Windows clipboard Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:08:14 +0200 Message-ID: <7sdmmsglhq0jd0c928hugu3ne34btet7c9@4ax.com> References: <396B326C.E286A0C6@rocketmail.com> In-Reply-To: <396B326C.E286A0C6@rocketmail.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Sender: 320032306730-0001@t-dialin.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id LAA28243 On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 20:12:52 +0530, you wrote: >Hi > >After installing Cygnwin version of VIM, I am not able to yank text to clipboard >using "*y. Similarly "*p does not work. That was a really useful feature and I >really miss it. How do I get it back? > >TIA >-- >shiv >vihs@rocketmail.com > > As far as I know the windows clipboard is not supported by cygwin. I can remember reading a thread on this in cygwin. The only (not very perfect) solution is to use NT's mechanism (mark with mouse, hit enter) to get text into the clipboard. But this of course only makes sense for texts smaller than screenwidth because windows adds cr's at the right end of the selection. Michael Ring -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com