Wednesday, July 2, 2014

[BUG?] redir tromping yank register 0?

Can anyone reproduce the following, and if so, is this a bug?

vim -u NONE -N

(start vim with no .vimrc in 'nocompatible' mode)

ihello<esc>

(insert some text on the first line)

Y

(yank the line)

:reg

(correctly shows that "" and "0 contain the yanked line)

:redir @"

(redirect into the scratch register)

:reg

Hey, where did my 0 register go?! I expected the scratch register to
get tromped, but not my yank register. I didn't do any yanking, and
the help says """

Numbered register 0 contains the text from the most recent yank
command, unless the command specified another register with ["x].

"""

It appears that ":redir @[a-z]" is somehow treated as a yank.

-tim




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