How to get Mac Vim clipboard copy and paste (Snow Leopard) in the terminal

I’ve been spending more time lately in iterm2 exclusively. The recent split-screen feature is great for me. Running vim in the terminal, I finally accepted this morning how annoying it was that the system clipboard wasn’t integrated.

A quick google and recompile with xterm_clipboard support did the trick.

Here’s the configure command:

 ./configure --with-features=huge \
                    --enable-cscope \
                    --enable-pythoninterp \
                    --enable-rubyinterp \ 
                    --enable-perlinterp \
                    --enable-gui=macvim \
                    --with-mac-arch=intel \
                    --enable-multibyte \
                    --enable-clipboard=yes \
                    --enable-xterm_clipboard=yes


If you are like me you prefer a single line for copy and pasting so here’s the same command in a margin defying format:

 ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-cscope --enable-pythoninterp --enable-rubyinterp --enable-perlinterp --enable-gui=macvim --with-mac-arch=intel --enable-multibyte --enable-clipboard=yes --enable-xterm_clipboard=yes

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  1. kizmeta posted this