Cygwin gvim needs weird ritual to past from Windows clipboard

Tue Jan 22 17:28:00 GMT 2013

I always use the keyboard shortcuts to cut/paste from windows apps
(e.g. Chrome/Firefox, etc).
 - Highlight the desired text (typically using "v" or "V" & motion).
 - Copy using "-*-Y (double quote, asterisk, y) to yank into the
system clipboard
 - Paste into the windoze app (browser, etc) using Crtl-V as usual
Also, note that for some things I use the Cygwin version of GVim (have
to start the X11 server first), and for some things I use the native
Windows version of GVim.
Alan Thompson
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh34d@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 January 2013 11:55, Andy wrote:
>> I installed cygwin's gvim on Windows 7. I found that pasting from the
>> Windows clipboard into gvim doesn't work by clicking the middle mouse
>> button unless I go through a weird ritual that I discovered by
>> accident. If I don't do this, I get "E353: Nothing in register *".
>> Vim's Wiki has a section dedicated to having Cygwin (G)Vim interact
> with the Windows clipboard:
>> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Using_the_Windows_clipboard_in_Cygwin_Vim
>> There are a few options outlined in there that should help you out.
>> Chris
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