在 Ubuntu 上使用 'vi' 出现错误“E353：没有注册”

Question

I am trying to install OpenDocMan in a new Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) that I have set up.

I followed steps in Setup Document Management System Using OpenDocMan On CentOS 6.5 .

Everything was great only till this step. It opens a new window and when I paste the code (with my database information) it gives me the below error

Create a config.php file with contents as given in the above dialogue box.

vi /var/www/html/opendocman/config.php

Copy the text given in the above dialog box.

When I do this, I get this error (including the quote at the end):

E353: Nothing in register "

I googled and followed instructions on how to solve this, but it is still not working.

I am not sure where this config.php file should be. Even when I follow the path in BlueFIsh, I can't see or make a file.

How can I fix this?

I don't have a domain for this yet, only the IP address.

I am new to Ubuntu.

Answer 1

If you get this error in Vim while copying text from one file to another on your laptop, it's probably because ~/.viminfo is owned by root (this can happen if you used Vim in sudo mode the first time you used it after installing it). If this is the case (check ls -la ~ ), then you could try:

sudo chown `whoami`.`whoami` ~/.viminfo

But in your case, it sounds like (on your laptop) you have a browser and a terminal application open, and the terminal application has an SSH connection to a server, on which you have a Vim editor open. If you try to tell Vim (running on the server) to paste something, it will (obviously) not have access to your laptop's clipboard or yank buffers. You can, however, put Vim into paste mode with :set paste followed by i inside the SSH session (or just i for normal input mode), and then paste the text into the terminal window (in the Ubuntu Terminal application, use Ctrl + Shift + V instead of the usual Ctrl + V ).