Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Problem pasting between files

[Alessandro P. <ale...@la...>]

>>>On 02/09/2013 10:55 AM, David Woodfall wrote:
>>>> When I copy lines from one tex file, open a different one and paste
>>>> I'm not getting a proper paste. Instead it pastes what looks like an
>>>> escape sequence ^[. On testing it does paste into a filetype other
>>>> than tex, so the yank line is working, just not the paste.
>>>>
>>>> What can I do to paste properly between tex files?
>
> I've noticed that it works when using a split window, but not when
> closing vim and opening the second file, if that's any clue.

When you yank some text in vim, it puts it in a register which gets
cleared when you close vim. You can do one of two things: either open
both files in the same session of vim, e.g. with split windows or
tags, or prepend "* to your yanking command, so that vim puts the
yanked text in a register shared with the system clipboard. For more
information on this, have a look look at the relevant help page [1].

Alessandro

[1] http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/gui_x11.html#x11-selection