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Cannot middle-click to paste
In most linux applications (including gvim), middle-clicking pastes the contents of the secondary buffer into the active text field. However, nvim-gtk seems to ignore middle-clicks.
Technical information
- OS: Fedora Linux
- Neovim version: v0.2.2
- Neovim-Gtk build version: 21e74c7ca7468a53ce1cbb449a19b8144f06836f
middle clicks work with :set mouse=a
. It's not nvim-gtk, this is function of neovim itself.
Thanks for the response, I didn't realize that I could get this to work with set mouse=a
. However, in my hands, middle-clicking works in plain nvim even with set mouse=""
, while in nvim-gtk it only works with set mouse=a
. Do you see this discrepency as well?
While set mouse=a
works in the text area, it does not help in the command line. Is there a workaround or something I'm missing?
Unfortunately this do not work both with normal command line or in floating (gtk) command line.
yes, looks like it does not work for command line
There is clearly a bug. Even without mouse=a
the first paste works, but not the rest.
I found that just setting set mouse=a
is not enough because while you can use that to insert text from the primary clipboard (highlight/middle mouse), this only works for external applications.
To cut & paste back to the primary clipboard, you must also set clipboard=unnamed
and then inside neovim-gtk yanking with y
will put it back into the primary clipboard. While it doesn't do it automatically when highlighting text like other applications, yanking is fine as a work around.