Bug#327037: vim: x-11 selection (running in xterm) not working

Jan Otte jan.otte at logicacmg.com
Wed Sep 7 07:41:29 UTC 2005


Package: vim
Version: 1:6.3-071+1
Severity: normal

Hi,

there is no possibility to use the x-11 selection in vim running under
xterm. The quotestar and quoteplus registers are not available (they are
mapped to the unnamed register), thus making the simple vim X-11 cut/paste unusable.

There are only gtk- and so versions of vim which are able to do this
x-11 selection, but they are depending on a whole bunch of other
libraries (gtk).

I guess that the problem could be solved by adding some compile flags
when building the package (compile the x-11 support in).

Jan Otte

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ (charmap=ISO-8859-2)

Versions of packages vim depends on:
ii  dpkg                     1.10.28         Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc6                    2.3.5-6         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgpmg1                 1.19.6-19sarge1 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libncurses5              5.4-4           Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  vim-common               1:6.3-071+1     Vi IMproved - Common files

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