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| author | bnewbold <bryan@octopart.com> | 2011-08-25 14:58:34 -0400 |
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| committer | bnewbold <bryan@octopart.com> | 2011-08-25 14:58:34 -0400 |
| commit | 715eb8ffadb7c756d937179777d735c3b92dba78 (patch) | |
| tree | bfe01a521016078e2865025984d86dc82d854ad4 | |
| parent | 5464c73cf61e95e424aa73ce8c2ce5751c7d26b2 (diff) | |
| download | knowledge-715eb8ffadb7c756d937179777d735c3b92dba78.tar.gz knowledge-715eb8ffadb7c756d937179777d735c3b92dba78.zip | |
vim-gtk trick for natty
| -rw-r--r-- | software/vim.page | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/software/vim.page b/software/vim.page index cc37fe5..c0d339f 100644 --- a/software/vim.page +++ b/software/vim.page @@ -47,8 +47,10 @@ actually typing. To paste in the contents of the X11 clipboard you want to use:: "*P -(aka quote, start, uppercase-P) in regular mode. This also solves the -autotabbing problem without ":set paste"! +(aka quote, star, uppercase-P) in regular mode. This also solves the +autotabbing problem without ":set paste"! You need to have "+xterm_clipboard" +in your ``vim --version`` output for this to work; the ``vim-gtk`` package on +newer Ubuntus has been compiled with this flag (?). Sometimes you really need tab characters instead of space indendation (eg, when editing Makefiles). To use tabs when editing a file use:: |