Can vim-lite paste from the clipboard?

John Oxley john at yoafrica.com
Sun Sep 18 23:56:10 PDT 2005


On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:51:15AM -0400, bob self wrote:
> I copied some text while in firefox, then went to vim and typed ":reg". 
> The text is not there. I also tried
> going into insert mode and clicking the right mouse button, but no text. 
> Do I need a different version of
> vim (maybe gvim?).

If you haven't set mouse to anything in vim, try middle clicking, or
hitting Shift+Insert while in vim's insert mode.

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