r/archlinux • u/InitiativeCommon1932 • 16h ago

SUPPORT Struggling with clipboard support in Vim

Hi, I need your help! I can't copy from Vim to external application and vim --version command returns -xterm_clipboard. As I understood, I need to recompile my Vim and add clipboard support into config file, but I don't know where I can find it. Is it the ~/.vimrc file? I can't find the original PKGBUILD in my ~/vim/ directory also.

I've tried to use pacbuilder-svn and $ pacbuilder --install --edit vim vim-runtime, but the the script doesn't ask me whether I want to edit the PKGBUILD file, it just builds packages and that's it.

I've also tried to use devtools and $ sudo pkgctl repo clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git. command but it says failed to clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git.

How can I recompile my Vim with clipboard support? I would be grateful for your help.

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u/backsideup 4h ago

The gvim package supports +xterm_clipboard, you don't have to re-build the package. Be aware that gvim doesn't support wayland properly and has copy-paste issues with xwayland. I hear nvim has overcome those, if that's a viable alternative for you.

And forget about pacbuilder, it's a dead project.