Sunday, March 6, 2011

Re: X clipboard interaction broken?

> Both '+' and '*' work as expected in vim-7.2.446 but not in vim-7.3.x.
> Actually it's a bit more complicated than that: sometimes copying
> into */+ does work but most of the time it doesn't (and there's no
> apparent pattern), which makes me think this could be a bug in vim-7.3
>
> Here's a testing sequence:
> - run vim, type in a line of text, copy it with V"+y
> - switch to firefox to check if 'Paste' is still grayed out
> - go back to vim and try V"+y again
> Sometimes it works on 4th attempt, sometimes on 6th, and sometimes
> on 15th.

I don't have Linux, I'm afraid, so will struggle to test this!

Is there someone else around who has Linux and can reproduce this?

Even better, is there by chance anyone who could possibly reproduce it
and confirm using Mercurial's bisect command which changeset introduced
the problem?

Cheers,

Ben.

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