Re: copy paste from vim to konsole does not work

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:29:20AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> I have access two machines (say primary, secondary)
> 
> 1) I log in into primary
> 2) open two konsoles on primary
> 3) From one of the konsoles, ssh into secondary
> 4) open a file in vim on secondary
> 5) select something in this vim session with mouse
> 6) go to the second konsole on primary
> 7) pasting the selected text with middle click does not work
> 
> However the following works
> 1) I log in into primary
> 2) open two konsoles on primary
> 3) From one of the konsoles, ssh into secondary
> 4) select something on this screen with mouse
> 5) go to the second konsole on primary
> 7) pasting the selected text with middle click works.
> 
> So the problem seems to be coming from pasting from a vim session.

  :h mouse

Specifically, what is the output of:

  :set mouse

Maybe you need to hold down the shift key while marking with the mouse?

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