I use vim inside terminal and trying to share the mac clipboard with vim.
Compiled vim with xterm_clipboard support and installed XQuartz.
MacBook-Air:web-ui nagakirank$ vim --version | grep xterm_clipboard
+xsmp_interact +xterm_clipboard -xterm_save
Nagas-MacBook-Air:web-ui nagakirank$ echo $DISPLAY
/tmp/launch-ltuLWk/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
But,am not able to get Mac clipboard content inside vim using "+" register "+y.
Now,clueless on why it's not working..Need pointers on how to debug this?
Best Answer
Try building Vim 7.3 with the
clipboard
feature enabled. Starting in Vim 7.3,+clipboard
uses the OS X pasteboard directly (via the*
or+
register, as you expected).It probably is possible to use
+xterm_clipboard
with an X server configured to convert X’s selection to and from the OS X pasteboard, but it would probably be more problematic than the direct+clipboard
solution.As an example, the MacPorts build of the
vim
port that I have currently installed (vim @7.3.661_0+huge+perl+python27+ruby+tcl
) has+clipboard
,-xterm_clipboard
, and can access the pasteboard through*
and+
.Also, if you happen to be running Vim inside tmux you will probably need my wrapper program to reenable pasteboard access inside tmux sessions; this only applies to
+clipboard
access: X-mediated access might still work OK—as long as you keep DISPLAY updated—but still seems unnecessarily cumbersome to me.