Ticket #499 (assigned usability)

Opened 22 months ago

Last modified 12 months ago

Update Pasteboard when CLIPBOARD changes only works when XQuartz is active.

Reported by: pelle@… Owned by: jeremyhu@…
Priority: Important Milestone: later
Component: quartz-wm Version: 2.7.0 (xserver-1.11.2)
Keywords: Cc:

Description

I've been trying to get vim to use the OS X pasteboard lately. In an X11-enabled vim I can type "+Y to copy to CLIPBOARD, which XQuartz then syncs to the pasteboard.

But this only works if I'm in an xterm. I usually use vim from ITerm2 and then the pasteboard is not updated. $DISPLAY is set properly, if there's no X11 connection vim will just beep.

I'm guessing this is done explicitly as a safety matter, but I think that's not really needed. Please change it.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 22 months ago by pelle@…

Just noticed that if I uncheck "Update PRIMARY when pasteboard changes" then it works.

comment:2 Changed 22 months ago by pelle@…

No, disregard that last comment. It will update the pasteboard when I read CLIPBOARD from a separate program, eg. another vim process.

comment:3 Changed 12 months ago by jeremyhu@…

  • Status changed from new to assigned
  • Component changed from xserver to quartz-wm
  • Priority changed from Nice to Have to Important
  • Version set to 2.7.0 (xserver-1.11.2)
  • Milestone set to later
  • Type changed from feature request to usability
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