[Tutor] python programming using the vim editor (was 'The Python way..')

[boB Stepp]

On 21/11/22 11:38PM, Alex Kleider wrote:
>
>Bob Stepp wrote:
>"""
>Do you have a system clipboard setup?  I had to get xsel going to use it with
>Neovim.
>
>Once you have a recognized (by Vim/Neovim) system clipboard configured, then
>you use the appropriate register(s).  In Vim/Neovim type ":h registers", which
>will describe them.  For instance if I have copied something to the system
>clipboard with the mouse and I am back in Vim/Neovim in insert mode I type
>"Ctrl-r, +" to paste it in.  If you are in normal mode you would use either
>"p" or "P" as you would with one of the alphabetic registers, but instead
>substitute "+".
>"""
>Thanks for your attempt to help, Bob, but I must confess to not understanding!
>I don't know of xsel or of Neovim...

xsel is one of a few *nix programs for interacting with the X server clipboard
selections.  It has nothing to do with the Vim/Neovim editors other than they
can make use of them.  You can Google for xsel or use your man pages for more
info.  Neovim is just a fork of Vim that so far retains compatibility with
Vim, so for most purposes Vim and Neovim are interchangeable.

>  ...I do have copy and paste working using just
>leftclick+C(opy or leftclick+Paste and am happy with that.
>I assume (but am not certain and for sure don't understand what the line is
>really doing) that the following line:
>" imap <C-v> <Esc>:set paste<CR>"+P :set nopaste<CR>a"
>in my .vimrc is providing me that functionality .
>Having said that, I did copy some of this text into the system clipboard and
>then while in insert mode in vim, "Ctrl-r, +" did accomplish a paste (the same
>as if I'd done 'leftclick, p'! )  That's good to know.

If this worked than you can forget about xsel.  Sounds like you did not have
to worry about the issues I originally had.

>How do you 'copy' a highlighted segment from vim into your system clipboard?

Just yank the selection into the "+" register just like you would yank text
into a lettered register.

Hope I'm clearer this time.  Must go to work!

BTW, you might want to Google or manpage xsel or whatever your system uses.  X
Server/X Windows has THREE selections it deals with: Primary, Secondary and
Clipboard.  It is useful to know the differences for both your mouse
functionality and using Vim and whatnot.

-- 
Wishing you only the best,
boB Stepp

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