Pasting from vim in terminal to Google Docs (Firefox + Vimperator) - need to understand
- by LIttle Ancient Forest Kami
I had some trouble with copy-pasting text from vim in terminal to Google Docs (aka Drive) document (hereafter GDd) in FF browser (with Vimperator).
Note:
I have a file opened in Vim 7.2 in terminal
:version displays both +clipboard and +xterm-clipboard
I'm on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, so I don't think that's Unity-related
I want to use Vim, not GVim, nor gedit...
I'm avid fan of mouseless navigation, so solution with mouse was not what I wanted.
I have the solution, but I need understanding.
What I tried and where it gets me:
Yanking whole file text via: ggvGy allows me to:
paste it via mouse middle button, NOT with Ctrl+v or Shift+Insert
here, in text area for entering question text
in gedit
but NOT in GDd where I want it pasted, even if I switch Vimperator to pass-through mode with Insert
does NOT show in XClip after xclip -o
From gedit, I can copy-paste the text into GDd (Vimperator's pass-through mode not required).
:%! !xclip -i (or :first, last)
reports whole file (all lines, to be precise) as filtered, though shell returns 1
`xclip -o' returns nothing (is empty) or returns previously copied value
with 2. no surprise, but I can't paste at all not only to GDd but also to gedit or here
setting clipboard (:set clipboard=unnamed) to unnamed doesn't help
using "+y or "*y on whole file text actually does the trick
So, the question (it's actually three, say "split" and I will):
why middle mouse button pastes different things than Ctrl+v and how to know what will be pasted with each?
why just yanking (without registers) works with mouse but not with keyboard / XClip?
why didn't unnamed register help? After setting, it should make unnamed and * registers same?
