vi editor

[Les Mikesell]

On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 08:48, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > 
> > The 2nd method is simple if you can get everything on the screen, but
> > unlike GUI editors, vi doesn't 'know' about selections at the window
> > level.  In something like nedit or gedit you could edit/select all,
> > edit/copy, move to remote window and edit/paste to take the whole
> > thing.

> I have to admit the above is true about vi. It is anoying I can do the
> complete copy in sections. Which I admit is a real pain if you have a
> larger file.

There is nothing specific to vi about this.  Character mode apps
don't know anything about the X clipboard and have no way to
transfer data to/from it under program control.  If you run
them in an xterm window, it is the terminal scraping the screen
and pushing the input though the keyboard that makes it work
at all.   Gvim had the edit/select all edit/copy options on
the menu, but that doesn't seem to be in fedora any more.

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  Les Mikesell
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