Re: [vimplugin-devel] VimPlugin: copy/paste between different texteditors

[Eric V. D. <erv...@gm...>]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Willem Moors <wil...@gm...> wrote:
> I think the vimplugin works great in eclipse, except for some minor
> issues, which may be outside of the vimplugin's reach.
>
> One thing doesn't work for me, and which will make me switch back to
> the standard eclipse editor if I can't get it to work, is copy-paste
> between editing-tabs.
> eg. I edit a textfile with the standard editor, and a java file with
> the vimplugin editor. How do I copy/paste lines of text between the
> two?

You should be able to just use vim's support for yanking and putting
to and from the clipboard register (:help quote+).

To yank text to the system clipboard: "+y
To put text from the system clipboard: "+p

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eric