That is problem I can't copy inside the shell and paste to anything outside it or vice-versa. I can copy within vi to vi, but that's it I even set the machine to bidirecitonal, shared clipboard, but alas, it doesn't work. This may be because I didn't want to dual boot my system. I'm on laptop.I end up taking screen shots for my Professor luckily he prefers them. I am getting pretty proficient with vi though. Still trying to figure why they would torture us with two scripting languages in 5 weeks.