[SGVLUG] vim paste

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> How do I cut from the vim terminal when running over ssh?

The way I've being doing it is select the text with the mouse and
ctrl-shift-c.  The text is then in the local gnome paste buffer.
Likewise, paste is ctrl-shift-v when in input mode.  Not sure it is
the best way, but I've been doing it this way for a long time.


On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Braddock Gaskill <braddock at braddock.com> wrote:
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> gnome-terminal
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> ssh localhost
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> vim
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> How do I cut from the vim terminal when running over ssh?
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> The normal trick is "+yy or "*yy using the special + or * clipboard, but
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> this doesn't work over ssh because the vim instance doesn't have access to
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> If I try to highlight in the vim window it just goes into visual mode and
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> gnome-terminal doesn't copy anything to the clipboard.
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