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Re: Double click to select within VIM behavior change


Keith Christian wrote:

Fellow Cygwin Denizens,

As we all know, when viewing a file with the "less" command, it's
possible to double click on text in order to select/copy, and paste
elsewhere at the command line or in another application (Word,
Notepad, etc.)

As recently as the last month or 6 weeks, this handy "shortcut" method
of selecting text from the VIM buffer has vanished.

It was possible to do this after issuing the ":g:" command to VIM:

":g:arbitrary_text"

would display lines containing "arbitrary_text" in the VIM buffer.

Double clicking words or lines filtered by ":g:" would select the
arbitrary_text string when it was double clicked, and it could be
pasted elsewhere in the VIM window or in any other application (Word,
Notepad, etc.)

NOTE ---- I'm not talking about double clicking text in the VIM window
that turns on the "-- VISUAL --" selection indicator, since that
operates solely within the VIM editor, and does not allow pasting the
selected text elsewhere.


---
Are you talking about vim or gvim?

It sounds like you are saying you could click on arbitrary text in other programs, and gvim (vim?) would have some sort of listener attached to
"appearance of new text in the cut/paste buffer", so it could scan it for the
string you entered?


The only place it could be likely to do that, I think, is under 'X',
I'm not sure I know the answer, but am trying to understand the question...


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