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RE: Pasting text in plain bash window


On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Jelks Cabaniss wrote:

> Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
> > One might try Alt-Space: "E", "P" for the Windows window with bash
> > running inside it.
>
> For the command line, the .inputrc way of setting Insert key to paste
> from the clipboard (described here earlier) is nice.  But if you're in
> vi, your method is AFAIK the only way to do that.  Is there a way in
> vi(m) to say "Make key X be the equivalent of Alt-space, E, P" (where
> 'key X' is, say, Ctrl-V or the Insert key)?
>
> /Jelks

Try this: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC55
This seems to work in vim as well.  Unless, of course, you wish a
keyboard-only solution...  In which case, I seem to remember there was
some discussion of the "* (clipboard) register in vim, although I couldn't
get it to work on my machine.
	Igor
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