Bugzilla – Bug 144109
gvim X selection no longer copies
Last modified: 2006-02-02 20:33:53 UTC
As of a recent gvim release (6.4.6-3), X selection no longer copies the selected text to the X selection. Paste still works, but copy does not. I reproduced it on GNOME and lieschen reproduced on KDE (so it is not a Klipper or similar problem). Maybe an upstream change?
I can reproduce this on KDE 3.5 (SLES10, beta1) as well. Really annoying.
gnome-maintainers i could use some help here. can one of you have a look at gvim?
Well, afaik the editable area of gvim has nothing to with gtk, its just a plain X app, so I don't think there is any gtk/gnome specific help we can give here.
Marcus can one of you guys have a look please?
xselection -cutbuffer 0 works for me
Great. Does running `gvim /etc/passwd` and selecting some text and then middle-click pasting it into a terminal work for you? It does not work here on multiple STABLE machines. mmrazik and others see the same thing. Version is 6.4.6-4.
I was checking the xselection implementation which works for me. I was checking gvim on beta4 which works for me, I tried checking on stable but this couldn't be done because stable is not ready currently /usr/X11R6/bin/gvim: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory So I doubt you are running STABLE. I'm not the maintainer of gvim and it was good will to look at that bug, according to your answer I wasted enough time here. Ask the maintainer of gvim if there are problems with gvim
Just because you do not want to fix the bug does not mean that the bug is resolved. Assign it to someone who is willing to help, then. I am definitely running gvim on STABLE, up-to-date as of today, thank you. gvim 6.4.6-4 uses the new perl 5.8.8. Perhaps the versions were not bumped. Since multiple people are seeing this bug, and it is a pretty bad bug, it needs to be fixed, not thrown aside. I will investigate.
Reassigning to me..
Well, a little good will and a fix is found. The cause of this bug is the fix to bug #141096 (submitted 11 Jan 2006). The updated gvimrc removes the 'a' guioption, which is set by default. This option enables X selections. Fix is to change the line :se guioptions=mr to :se guioptions=amr in our /etc/gvimrc file (suse.gvimrc in the package). Easy enough! mmj or hvogel, I would be happy to submit the change to autobuild, just let me know. Danke!
Created attachment 66249 [details] Fix for bug Fixes our suse.gvimrc file.
>Since multiple people are seeing this bug, and it is a pretty bad bug, it >needs to be fixed, not thrown aside. This is true, and I'm sorry for not feeling responsible for gvim. mmj started its business trip and people are starting to reassign his bugs to others. Within this one I checked the implementation of the xselection because this is the interface every X application implementing a selection is using and there is no bug as a I said and your fix proved it. So check it in :-) We have several severe X problems currently which doesn't give us time to debug single applications like gvim. That's why I set it to later. It wasn't my intention to offend anybody but if your X base system doesn't work you even wouldn't be able to run gvim, would you ? I am wondering and must admit that I don't like ironic comments like "a little good will and a fix is found". but I'm glad there is a new gvim maintainer
I am not the new gvim maintainer. Nonetheless, I submitted the fix to autobuild. Bug fixed.