Re: copy paste works first time but not afterwards

On 23:49 Wed 10 Sep , kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> I am using putty 0.62 from Windows 7 (64 bit) to connect to a Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 running gvim 7.2. In short the set up is
>
> Windows 7 -> putty -> Linux -> gvim
>
> When I copy text from gvim and paste it on the putty terminal, it works the
> very first time.
>
> In the subsequent rounds, if I copy text from gvim and paste it on the
> putty terminal, it pastes the text copied the very first time.
>
> I experimented with copying using mouse, using gvim Edit copy menu, copying
> in normal mode, insert mode. The behavior remains same.
>
> Instead of putty, I also tried using MobaXterm (Personal Edition 6.2). The
> behavior remains same.
>
> The problem does not show up if I use emacs (version 21.4) instead of vim.
> Here copy paste works the first time as well as in all the subsequent
> rounds.
>
> Has anyone experienced this issue? Any thoughts/comments/suggestions as to
> how to fix this?
>
> thanks
> raju
> --
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
> http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/
>

Hi,

You can check if gVim on RedHat is updating the "+ and "* registers.
Use :reg command or the @* and @+ viml variables.

Best regards,
Marcin