Saturday, January 17, 2015

Re: Fwd: Unable to yank to system clipboard



On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:
Hi Salman!

On Fr, 16 Jan 2015, Salman Halim wrote:

> Hello, everybody. Bram asked me to forward this here in case anybody else could
> shed any light on this issue.
>
> Thank you. The issue:
>
> > Bram,
> >
> > I've tried this in several GVim distributions (on Windows 7, starting after
> about 7.4.3xx), but keep seeing the same behaviour with 'clilpboard' set to
> unnamed: the very first yank/delete/change operation sets the "* register
> (along with the usual "0, etc.), but subsequent operations only set the
> internal registers, not "*, so the operation's results aren't available outside
> GVim.
> >
> > If I do one of these, things work:
> >
> > 1. Explicitly prefix an operation with "*. This works, but is a departure
> from the usual behaviour. Or,
> > 2. Launch with vim -u NONE -U NONE and then set 'clipboard' to unnamed.
> >
> > Based on 2, you could argue that a plugin/autocommand must be doing
> something, but I didn't change any of those; I literally just dropped in
> another GVim build.
> >
> > It's interesting that the very first one works, but subsequent operations
> don't.
> >
> > Lastly, this doesn't work for simple operations such as yiw or y$, neither of
> which are mapped to anything. The only thing I can think of is that something
> changed in the code base in how this is handled.
> >
> > What do you think?

Can anybody else reproduce this?  Salman, can you try to find out, which
plugin does that?

Best,
Christian



Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, but it took a while to narrow it down. It's this:

tabdo windo echo 'hi'

Basically, execute a command in all tabs and windows. The command doesn't matter (I tried a few different commands, including those that don't echo anything to eliminate :echo as the culprit). Everything works just fine until the first time this tabdo and windo combination is executed and then subsequent operations no longer affect the "* register. (Yes, 'clipboard' is set to unnamed both before and immediately after the command--didn't get modified and echoes my _vimrc as the last place from which it was set.)

Simply executing :windo echo 'hi' doesn't do it, nor does :tabdo echo 'hi'. It's got to be both tabdo and windo in the same operation.

(My previous diagnosis that it works the first time only was a misinterpretation of this symptom.)

The interesting thing is that I only have one buffer open, so all three of tabdo, windo and tabdo windo actually only execute once.

Thank you,

Salman

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