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This web page presents an experimental patch for a new feature for gvim on MS Windows. If you have any feedback, please contact me at kenhirsch at ftml dot net

The new feature triggers an event "ClipboardChanged" whenever the clipboard is changed (in any application). The Windows editor "NoteTab" implements this (as "pasteboard") and it is, at times, very handy.

The feature is activated by ":set clipboardwatch" or ":set cbw", and turned off by ":set noclipboardwatch" or ":set nocbw".

To my .vimrc, I've added

  if has("clipboardwatch")
    au! ClipboardChanged * exec "normal \"*gp$"
  endif

so that anything copied to the clipboard is pasted into the current buffer.

Notes--

• I have a downloadable zip file (1.1 MB) that includes these files:
  

      gvim.exe
      doc/autocmd.txt
      doc/eval.txt
      doc/map.txt
      doc/options.txt
      doc/tags
      doc/various.txt
  

  If you unzip directly into your Vim folder, usually "C:\Program Files\Vim\vim70", you should be good to go. Some zip programs may not honor the full path, so you would have to copy the txt files to the vim70\doc directory. (This gvim.exe was compiled with nmake -f Make_mvc.mak GUI=yes DEFINES=-DFEAT_CBWATCH using Visual C++ Express 2005)
• The patch (13 KB) is relative to vim-7.0.220

  These files are patched:
  

      runtime/doc/autocmd.txt
      runtime/doc/eval.txt
      runtime/doc/map.txt
      runtime/doc/options.txt
      runtime/doc/tags
      runtime/doc/various.txt
      src/eval.c
      src/fileio.c
      src/gui_w32.c
      src/gui_w48.c
      src/option.c
      src/option.h
      src/os_mswin.c
      src/proto/gui_w32.pro
      src/proto/ui.pro
      src/ui.c
      src/vim.h