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How do I get +clipboard support in Fedora 20?
So, installing vim-enhanced and vim-X11 is enough, but is not at the same time. To enable the system funtcions like +clipboard, you moreover need to use the vimx executable rather than vim or vi (even ...
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How do I use the system clipboard with Vim in Arch Linux?
Ok. Apparently on native vim in Arch there is no support for X so the +clipboard feature is missing.
To fix this, install gvim, which although conflicts with vim, which was my initial problem with it,...
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Scroll the screen, not the cursor, when using scrollwheel
As @Doorknob said in his comment, :set mouse=a fixes the problem.
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Can Vim add to the X11 clipboard or primary buffers without an external utility?
TL;DR: This isn't really possible without a clipboard manager (e.g. clipit, diodon, glipper, parcellite).
It's an explicit design choice of X to not store the data for the X selections, whether that'...
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Colorscheme's background not correct in terminal
There's two reasons why I think this may be happening:
The solarized color scheme you are using does not declare ctermfg and ctermbg for any of the features you want to highlight. Try out this color ...
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Define custom commands for the * and + registers
A few <expr> mapping should be able to do the job here. The basic structure would be
function! ClipboardOrXclip(command, register)
if a:register !~ '[+*]' || has('xterm_clipboard') || has('...
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Colorscheme's background not correct in terminal
Great news, everyone. @Tom and @Rich set me on the right path. I found a solution provided here. I set my .vimrc to the simple
syntax enable
set background=dark
set t_Co=16
colorscheme solarized
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How to safely switch from vim-athena to vim-gtk?
You don't have to uninstall any of the existing packages. The vim-{athena,gtk,gtk3,nox} etc. packages just provide the Vim binary built with different feature sets and linked against different GUI ...
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Install Vim with +clipboard support but without Gvim?
If you don't mind having gvim installed you can run gvim in commandline mode with gvim -v. Then you should have a version of commandline vim able to access the keyboard.
Also if gvim is invoked as vim ...
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Colorscheme's background not correct in terminal
I guess it is an issue of compatibility of this colorscheme with terminal.
The plugin csaprox miraculously solve a bunch of this issues.
Synopsis:
It's hard to find colorschemes for terminal Vim. ...
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Colorscheme's background not correct in terminal
The solarized terminal-Vim colorscheme can work in one of two different ways.
A 16-colour mode: Solarized only contains 16 colours, so in this mode you set your terminal to use the solarized colours ...
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Raise window holding swap file
One solution would be to use a single instance of vim per project, which would prevent this issue unless your multiple projects had overlapping files.
I'm going to assume that you are looking for a ...
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Scroll the screen, not the cursor, when using scrollwheel
I know this is a few years late, but you can use
nmap <Down> <C-e>
nmap <Up> <C-y>
This worked for me.
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Raise window holding swap file
Long lost and almost forgotten.
Meant to re-factor the code etc. but post is as is. This code is used on a 32-bit system. Not sure how it would behave on 64-bit (or other).
Have a hack in C-code ...
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Colorscheme's background not correct in terminal
Seems like you found your answer. I had this same problem and nothing above worked. What worked for me was using altercation's terminalrc, as opposed to sgerrand's.
My relevant vimrc is simply:
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Install Vim with +clipboard support but without Gvim?
Building Vim from the source with the right flags is the general solution.
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
cd vim/src
./configure --with-x=yes --disable-gui
The last command will probably ...
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Disable Shift+Insert from pasting from Primary
I found a solution which relies on Vim's +clientserver capability. It just took a small addition to a script I already used. The final result is this vimserver.sh:
#!/bin/sh
if [ -z "$(vim --...
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How can I make gvim keyboard language-agnostic in command mode?
One option is to use the plugins https://github.com/lyokha/vim-xkbswitch or https://github.com/rlue/vim-barbaric, which switch the input method in vim's input mode using xkbswitch.
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Colorscheme's background not correct in terminal
So this is what works for me (on all terminals I used to use – xterm, konsole, gnome-terminal, iterm2, roxterm – on both Linux and OS X, also with gvim and macvim):
" no other configuration than this ...
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