copying from vi to clipboard does not over writes clip board buffer

[Colin Law]

On 16 February 2011 13:55, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Something I've found very useful and so far has worked for me on
> various Linux distros and various terminals (aterm, Gnome Terminal,
> xterm, Terminator, etc):
>
> In the terminal, regardless of whether its running vi, emacs, or just
> sitting in the shell, highlight the text you want with the mouse
> (right click and hold and drag fro one end of the selection to the
> other, then release right button.
>
> In the target, where you want the text to appear, middle click, OR
> click both right and left buttons simultaneously at the position you
> want to paste the text.
>
> That works pretty much ever time, universally, without having to
> wonder if the text I copied is now in this buffer or that buffer or
> wherever, and as long as you don't click anywhere else (do any other
> click actions) you can middle click and paste that selected text as
> many times as you want.

Wow, I did not know that (though I find I have to mark with the left
button, not the right).  It does not only work to and from the
terminal, it works with all apps that I have tried so far.  Many
thanks for that gem of knowledge.  In particular it gets round a
problem I have with jEdit that copy out of jEdit will not paste into a
terminal for some reason (into gedit and other apps is all right, it
is just the terminal that it will not paste into, similarly I can copy
from gedit into the terminal, it is just jEdit to the terminal that is
the problem, no more a problem though with the new magic method).

Colin