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VimR — Neovim GUI for macOS in Swift
https://twitter.com/VimRefined
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Can't select text in messages buffer #563

Open clason opened 6 years ago

clason commented 6 years ago

As opposed to terminal nvim, text in the :messages list is not selectable (and hence cannot be copied). Needless to say, this is irksome when trying to debug something...

(Let me know if you need more information.)

ELLIOTTCABLE commented 6 years ago

@clason to be fair, it's also not enabled in terminal-vim, if the mouse is gobbled by Vim.

That said, I'm :+1: here — this behaviour can certainly be improved upon in a GUI. The “select and copy to system-clipboard” functionality needn't involve any Vim events or evaluation (that obviously being the reason it's disabled in Vim itself), so I personally think this additional functionality belongs in VimR.

(Of immediate use — I asked a question about this very subject on SuperUser; a kind someone directed me to their invaluable :Bufferize plugin. A stopgap, to be sure, but …)

clason commented 6 years ago

@ELLIOTTCABLE Good point, I didn't realize that I'm relying purely on the terminal's copy&paste feature there.

ELLIOTTCABLE commented 6 years ago

Addtl. note — MacVim does exactly this; so there's user-expectation across all the available platforms. (=

mrinterweb commented 6 years ago

I'm 👍 for this feature as well. It would be very useful to be able to select text from the message buffer. I frequently do this in MacVim, and am really missing the ability to select/copy text.

For clarification, I'm not sure if the messages buffer is the name of the general buffer vim puts its output. Being able to select text anywhere in vimr would be useful.