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# 8  
Old 08-03-2012
If you're using X11, then you're using a graphical application. It may use the graphics to show text, but it's a graphical application.

Middle click in mac is cmd-click. You can also plug in an ordinary mouse and you'll have all the functionality Apple never thought you'd need.
# 9  
Old 08-03-2012
Copy text ----> Vi insert mode ----> cmd-click does not work. Any other thoughts?
# 10  
Old 08-03-2012
googling osx x11 paste found the apple faq on the subject:

Quote:
Q: How do I copy and paste using X11 for Mac OS X?

A: X11 for Mac OS X allows cut and paste between X11 and native applications using PRIMARY and PASTEBOARD selections.
You can cut text from X11 applications by selecting the text, performing a cmd-c or copy operation. You can paste in native Mac OS X applications as usual using Cmd-V.
Because there is no standard for pasting in X11 applications (some use middle mouse button, some use control-v, etc.), cmd-v doesn't work for pasting in X11 applications by design. As a result, the "Paste" menu item will be grayed out when X11 applications are in focus. You should use the control-v or the middle mouse button instead for pasting (See X11 Preferences for emulating a middle mouse button).
The "Paste" menu option will be active when non-X windows are active within X11.app (e.g., when entering text in the "Customize Applications" menu item).
A common request has been to make cmd-v work across all X11 applications. This isn't possible without re-writing all X11 applications to standardize on a single approach, which is outside the domain of X11 for Mac OS X.
Please, try option-click on X11 applications. The 'enable key equivalence' in the X11 Preferences allows cmnd-c to work, but in some cases it has conflict with other keyboard shortcuts, namely on emacs.
# 11  
Old 08-03-2012
Thanks, but this does not pertain to vim. I need to know how to paste text which I have copied into an open vim file.
# 12  
Old 08-03-2012
There is not a "vim method" of pasting.

That's a function of the window system -- and the window system you're using vim in, is X11. You said so yourself. The edit options you saw -- with paste grayed out or missing -- are exactly what you'd expect of an application which uses X11 under OSX.

Even if it uses the graphics to display text, that doesn't make it not a graphical application. X11 doesn't have a "text mode".

It does, however, have a method of pasting things, which is configurable in OSX's X11 server.

Try it already. And check the options I gave you, to see what it's actually expecting.

Last edited by Corona688; 08-03-2012 at 04:48 PM..
# 13  
Old 08-03-2012
Yes, I can easily copy and paste within X11. Thanks again, though.
# 14  
Old 08-03-2012
Hi,

Normally if there is a copy option, once highlighted and copied there will be a paste option.

Regards

Dave
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