Re: Clipboard missing after Vim update

On 2014-10-01, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> On Mi, 01 Okt 2014, Gary Johnson wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Perhaps patch 7.4.445 did not fix all problems that where introduced by
> 7.4.396?

I'm running 7.4.430 at work. I was previously running 7.4.389. I
haven't had time this morning to do any testing of this. If you
think these problems were fixed by patch 445, I can update my build
to the latest and see what happens. Is there any value in my
testing 7.4.430 first?

Regards,
Gary

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