Unix copy method not working for gnome terminal

[Colin Law]

On 24 October 2012 12:15, oxy <oxyopes at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>Then you need to be far more specific.  What version of Ubuntu? What
>>version of vi?  what version of gnome terminal?
>
> hi, it was in my first email:
> vim 7.3.429 in a GNOME Terminal 3.4.1.1 on ubu 12.04.
>
> Again problem explanation:
> open a gnome terminal, do `cat filename.txt`, highlight-copy
> the contetnt with the link mouse button, open a 2nd terminal,
> middle-click on it to paste the content.
>
> It doenst work for me. Can anybody reproduce that?

When you say "hightlight-copy the content with the link mouse button"
what do you mean?  Do you just mean marking it by holding down the
left mouse key and dragging?

So if you are just pasting into a newly opened terminal then vim does
not come into the story at all?

For me this works ok (but I am on 12.10).  Of course if you mark
multiple lines then it tries to execute the pasted lines which may not
be desirable.

Colin