Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I'm not sure whether this is the right place for my question.

For scripting I use very often Vim because it's almost available on all unix stations.

Sometimes it would be very helpful to exchange text inside Vim with other programs and the other way round! For example I want to copy inside vim 3 lines and paste them into Open Office or copy a URL from Firefox to Vim.

Is that possible ???

Thanks
climber

Hi,
If You have a three button mouse, You can usually select text with Your left mouse button and paste it with the middle one.
A modern Firefox most certainly also will allow You to just drag an adress, URL, or image/link to a text window, ie vim or terminal.

/Lakris

Sure that's possible but I want to let my hands on the keyboard :-)

climber

If you're inside screen, just "C-a esc" to enter copy mode, "spacebar" to set mark, select region, "spacebar" again, then "C-a ]" to paste.

"shift+insert" to paste content of clipboard outside screen. "shift+delete" to copy.

from vim you can use the the erad command to read a file in $pwd into the file.
:!pwd
:!ls
:r <somefile>

(the ! lets you execute shell commands )