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> What did you have in mind for using this feature?

I jot down remarks and reminders in tiny files and later on
insert them somewhere else as appropriate. It is not so
frequent but your suggestion (open file, copy to clipboard,
close file, paste) is not for me. The selection dialog
for insertion is very common, nobody ever found it 
cumbersome, all the major Windows text editors have it.


> My take is that use of OS widgets via system calls does not
> violate the letter or spirit of the GPL.

Those OS calls must be somewhere in vim's source (or are
they from Cream?). So either they have an alternative 
wherever they are called or they are essential. If they are
essential, my naive view is that a GPL problem crops up.


Regards


Frank