copying from vi to clipboard does not over writes clip board buffer

[Tapas Mishra]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Mark Widdicombe
<mwiddicombe at shoprite.co.za> wrote:
>>From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Tapas Mishra [mightydreams at gmail.com]
>>Sent: 16 February 2011 10:10
>>Here is a situation
>>Situation A
> ---------------------------------------
>>I open a text file in vi
>>and scroll to some line
>>now press Esc
>>and :"+yy
>>the line gets yanked
>>I open gedit and Ctrl+V
>>and then I see the line is pasted.
>
>>Situation B
>>------------------------------------------------
>>But the same does not work for a different situation.
>>Suppose I opened some link in Firefox and do a Ctrl+C and in gedit I do Ctrl+V
>>then I can see the link getting pasted but if now I repeat the steps I
>>described above in Situation A
>>then each time on gedit I do not see the text from vi copied but the
>>link repeated which I do not expect
>>because it should have been over written by the yanked line and the
>>previous link of firefox should not be copied.
> The yy command in vi does not place the lines you yanked into the clipboard,
> it places them in vi's undo buffer.  You should not be able to paste yanked lines
> into another application; for that you should highlight and *copy* the
> lines to the clipboard.
>
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