rkitover
commented
12 years ago Commands like e.g. yy will not work, because less.vim overrides some common vi commands to be used for movement.
As for mouse selection, it will depend on whether or not you have:
set mouse=a set ttymouse=xterm2
in your .vimrc, to turn on terminal mouse support.
If you have:
set mouse=
then terminal vim does not use the mouse, and you can select text normally.
If you have mouse turned on, selection using the mouse goes to register * instead of the clipboard, to make it go to the clipboard as well use:
set clipboard=autoselect
I should probably add this command to vimpager.
The advantage of mouse=a clipboard=autoselect is that you can still use trackpad scrolling and copy text with it as well.
Note that you don't need to press cmd-C to copy, it is sufficient to just select the text for it to go to the clipboard.
If for some reason this code does not work for you in your .vimrc:
set mouse=a set ttymouse=xterm2 set clipboard=autoselect
you can try disabling mouse support while in vimpager, using something like this instead:
if !exists("vimpager") set mouse=a set ttymouse=xterm2 set clipboard=autoselect else set mouse= endif
that will turn off mouse support (including the very convenient scrolling support) and just let you select text like from the terminal.
Another option is to hold down the option key when you select text, that overrides the application's use of the mouse in iTerm2 and lets you select any text normally.
I don't know what exactly is giving you the "No range allowed" error, I don't get that in any case.
Please let me know if this information was helpful in resolving your issue.
cdlm
jdumas
AllisonV
doctorcolossus
When trying to copy text from vimpager, I get
E481: No range allowed, and nothing goes to the system pasteboard. It's the same with vim shortcuts (e.g. yy) and with mouse selection and Command C.This is with iTerm 2 on Mac.