Re: stretch, vim, cut and paste broken (and fix)

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 10:46:27AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 10:36:52AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > - move over to some other text input field and
> >   paste with button 3
> 
> You mean button 2.
> 
> > except, vim stopped allowing the paste.
> > 
> > Here's the change:
> > 
> > /usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim 
> 
> Generally speaking, yeah, that OS level defaults file can cause problems.
> Lots of changes have occurred there.  The good news is that it's ignored
> if you have your own ~/.vimrc file.
> 
> So, just create a ~/.vimrc file with something in it, and you should be
> all set.
> 

I've had that for years. Last week I changed tabstops from 8 to
4. 

Clearly the problem can still arise with a ~/.vimrc in place.

-dsr-