Re: Clipboard missing after Vim update

On Wednesday, October 1, 2014 8:58:08 AM UTC-5, Salman Halim wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently compiled GVim on my Windows 7 machine (7.4.463) and have found that the default yank no longer goes to the system clipboard. On my previous build (7.4.307), it does. My 'clipboard' is set to unnamed, which I set many years ago.
>
> On 307, if I type yiw, I can immediately paste this elsewhere, including inside GVim. On 463, it has no effect on the system clipboard at all (previous contents remain unchanged), so pasting elsewhere doesn't work (it still works in GVim because it's using the unnamed "" register for everything).
>
> Typing :reg shows that "" and "0 have the newly yanked text, but "* does not.
>
> Explicitly prefixing with "* does work, but this wasn't required in 307.
>
> Any ideas? I know that's rather a large number of patches.
>

Are you CERTAIN that 'clipboard' currently contains "unnamed"? Type ":verbose set clipboard?" to determine that. This should work, and indeed it works for me on a very slightly older path level (430).

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