clipbaord internals ques

[M Kelly]

Hi,

Just curious, what is the mechanism by which vim saves to the clipboard ?
For example if I am on a X11 system but in termnal vim and I have clipboard set to unnamed

and I highlight in visual mode some lines and then y(ank) them - does vim use OSC 52 ?
Or does it (even tho its the terminal) use X11 to update the PRIMARY ?

I will try to figure this out from the code but just wondered if anyone knew this already.

thx as always for all things vim,

-m

[Ken Takata]

Hi,

Vim uses X11 even on terminal to support clipboard.

If you use Vim which is compiled without X11, you will find that the clipboard feature (in output of `:version`)

is disabled.

Regards,

Ken Takata