On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:31 PM Johannes Degen <
jeeh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> See :help c_CTRL-Y. It works anywhere I suspect, at least in the gui.
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:28 PM Johannes Degen <
jeeh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Control-y in my Gvim (OpenBSD).
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 4:21 PM A. Wik <
awi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> In gVim (at least my version, which uses GTK), you can select text in
>>> the status line, but how can you copy it? Or maybe you can't?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Albert.
Yes, the |modeless-selection| is the only way to select text not
wholly inside one split-window (e.g. including status line(s) and/or
the command-line). This is possible in gvim; in some terminals the
terminal will preempt mouse drags and not pass them to Vim: if your
terminal is of that kind you will have to either copy the selection
the way it is done in that particular terminal, or else switch to
gvim, where Ctrl+Y copies the modeless selection (if there is one) to
the clipboard.
Best regards,
Tony.