Re: gvim auto copy selected text to clipboard

Hi Gary!

On So, 22 Apr 2012, Gary Johnson wrote:

> Case 1:
> clipboard=unnamedplus,unnamed,autoselect,exclude:cons\|linux
>
> Copy text from a GNOME Terminal by dragging the mouse over it
> with the left button held down.
>
> ":registers" shows selected text in the * register. The
> contents of the + and " registers are unchanged from before the
> copy operation.
>
> ":put" pastes the contents of the + register, not what I wanted.
>
> Case 2:
> clipboard=unnamed,unnamedplus,autoselect,exclude:cons\|linux
>
> Copy text from a GNOME Terminal as before. ":registers" shows
> the same results as before, as expected.
>
> ":put" again pastes the contents of the + register.
>
> Case 3:
> clipboard=unnamed,autoselect,exclude:cons\|linux
>
> Copy text from a GNOME Terminal as before. ":registers" shows
> the same results as before, as expected.
>
> ":put" now pastes the contents of the * register.
>
> So it appears that the only way to paste from the * register without
> explicitly naming it is to exclude "unnamedplus" from the
> 'clipboard', and that means that unnamed yanks from Vim go only to
> the * register and not the + register, which then means that Ctrl-V
> in Firefox won't paste that yanked text. That's really fine with me
> since I paste into X applications other than Vim with the middle
> mouse button, not Ctrl-V, but it's not what the OP wanted.

That should probably be documented. Here is a doc patch:
diff --git a/runtime/doc/change.txt b/runtime/doc/change.txt
--- a/runtime/doc/change.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/change.txt
@@ -977,6 +977,11 @@
current line). This always works |linewise|, thus
this command can be used to put a yanked block as new
lines.
+ If no register is specified, it depends on the 'cb'
+ option, if 'cb' contains "unnamed", paste from
+ * register |quotestar|, if 'cb' also contains
+ "unnamedplus", use + register |quoteplus|, else paste
+ from the unnamed register |quote_quote|.
The cursor is left on the first non-blank in the last
new line.
The register can also be '=' followed by an optional


regards,
Christian
--
Sind wohl solche Zahlzeichen möglich, die wenn ich das Blatt
herumkehre und alsdann ausspreche z.E. so viel bedeuten als die Hälfte
der vorhergehenden..
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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