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DISPLAY has absolutely nothing to do with vim or copy and pasting.
– Felipe Alvarez
Commented May 29, 2017 at 4:48
@FelipeAlvarez Apparently it worked for me. Let me know if you come up with a better solution!
– Jon49
Commented May 29, 2017 at 17:44
@Jon49, Can you explain what this is doing? Are you putting this in .vimrc? or within vim like :export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
– alpha_989
Commented Jul 24, 2017 at 14:55
@alpha_989, That goes into the Ubuntu terminal. I believe it connects Ubuntu and Windows somehow. Been a while so I don't remember all the details.
– Jon49
Commented Jul 24, 2017 at 20:25

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