vim cut&paste on RH8.0

[Matthew Hawkins]

Simon Burton (simonb at webone.com.au) wrote:
> I used to be able to use the X clipboard: y'know, select and middle mouse and
> all that, but now vim seems to have it's own cut buffer; when i middle mouse in
> a vim it pastes what was in the yank buffer.

Vim always has had its own cut buffer.  Have a read around ":help registers"

You might like to try putting something like this into your ~/.vimrc:

inoremap <MiddleMouse> <C-o>:set paste<CR><MiddleMouse><C-o>:set nopaste<CR>

Cheers,

-- 
Matt

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