[vim/vim] Then Vim add clipboard support to regular vim (Discussion #17343)
ScriptScorpion
In regular Vim i (maybe others) dont have clipboard support that means i can only copy and paste in Vim but cannot paste then i exit vim(its saving text only to vim clipboard but not for user clipboard).
Why dont add clipboard support to regular Vim, not only for Gvim?
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Maxim Kim
Vim has clipboard support (not for wayland as of now). I believe if you search internet you'll find quite a lot of resources explaining it. But in short, your vim should be compiled with +clipboard feature and be linked against X libraries using --with-x(?) configure option (I don't remember exactly the names of libraries and configure option).
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ScriptScorpion
yes you can build from source but its harder then just already builded binary
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Maxim Kim
I don't understand the question/suggestion then. Do you want vim always be compiled with +clipboard feature?
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ScriptScorpion
yes
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Maxim Kim
This is up to the people who is in charge of building binaries for the distribution you're using.
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ScriptScorpion
but vim can create guide how to build it with this features
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Maxim Kim
Like this answer? https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/30787/install-vim-with-clipboard-support-but-without-gvim
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ScriptScorpion
good reply but in stack overflow no real answer all saying they 'right' way to do this
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ScriptScorpion
like this but all have different operating systems not all use Debian
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Gary Johnson
> This is up to the people who is in charge of building binaries for the
> distribution you're using.
but the package may not have a name you would expect. For example,
Ubuntu's vim package does not have X11 enabled, but you can install
the vim-gtk3 package which installs a vim as well as a gvim that has
X11 enabled.
Regards,
Gary
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Christian Brabandt
This is not really a why. It's basically a matter of installing the right flavor of vim and making sure the clipboard libraries are available on your system (that includes the X11 libraries, which is usually not possible on pure server installations). If that is fine, install the gvim application and then just start gvim using the -v switch, to make sure to not launch the gui. That vim will then have clipboard feature enabled.
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ScriptScorpion
is gvim receive less updates compare to vim?
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iampi31415
imho it'd be a good idea to have an explicit instruction somewhere in the vim docs or README.md, for how to build with clipboard support.
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Christian Brabandt
no gvim is vim
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Christian Brabandt
the thing explicit build instructions is, it depends on what system you are using. You need to make sure you have the required X11 development libraries installed and then run ./configure [other-flags] --with-x for [other-flags] see the output of ./configure --help. But make sure you have the required dependencies installed so Vim can be build against those.
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ScriptScorpion
you dont clarified where run ./configure
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Christian Brabandt
from the src directory
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ScriptScorpion
thank you if you do git clone vim github and then 'cd src' and './configure --with-features=huge --enable-terminal' then do 'make' and 'sudo make install ' all working fine and i have clipboard enabled
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Phạm Bình An
You can also run ./configure from Vim repo's root directory
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