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rubick

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2013-02-11

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[SOLVED] Can't use + and * buffers in Vim

Hi, from some time my selection (*) and clipboard (+) buffers in Vim don't work. For example if I want to paste from clipboard buffer, I used to type:

"+p

But now, the command does nothing. I have option

set showcmd

in my .vimrc which displays typed command in right lower corner, and the command just disappears when I press + or * after the ", like this combination of keys was not supported. Pasting from other internal buffers like a-z works fine. I think this happened after update of xorg, and something changed regarding clipboard. Has anyone encountered this problem?

Last edited by rubick (2014-09-08 12:49:19)

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't use + and * buffers in Vim

Have you installed one of the gvim pacakges, or one of the vim{,-minimal} packages? gvim comes with X support (and by extension, clipboard support), regular vim does not.

EDIT:

vim --version | grep clipboard

Will tell you whether or not you have clipboard support compiled in. If you have "+clipboard", you have clipboard support, if you have "-clipboard", you do not.

Last edited by WorMzy (2014-09-08 10:18:33)

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rubick

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2013-02-11

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED] Can't use + and * buffers in Vim

Thanks for your advice. I had installed plain vim package as i don't use gvim. Command you have suggested revealed that i hadn't clipboard support. I solved this by intalling gvim package. Now I can use command line vim with clipboard support. Thank you. I am marking this thread as solved.