Monday, March 28, 2011

Re: Missing selection register (*)?

On Mar 25, 2:41 pm, "Suresh Govindachar" <sgovindac...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   On Windows, after yanking a line, :echo @* shows the yanked
>   line.  But on Unix, there doesn't seem to be anything in the *
>   register -- it is as though there is no * register at all!
>   Version of vim used on Fedora 14 was:
>

The only time when Vim will default to putting yanked text into the
system clipboard, is if you have :set clipboard=unnamed either
manually set or set in your .vimrc.

Is this the case on both your Windows and Unix system?

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