Re: Clipboard missing after Vim update

On 2014-10-01, Ben Fritz wrote:
> 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).

I've been seeing funny behavior with the clipboard after a recent
update, too. I just haven't taken the time to troubleshoot it. It
used to "just work" and now it doesn't. The symptom is the message,
"Nothing in register *" (or something like that) when I copy text in
one program (maybe Vim) and try to paste in another Vim instance
with p. I have to use "+p instead.

I'll have a closer look when I get to work.

Regards,
Gary

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