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

[Alan Pope]

On 16 February 2011 09:59, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>
> Please read the message before you answer.
>

Tapas,

With respect. People have read your message and have explained to you
that what you _expect_ to happen is not what is _designed_ to happen.

Situation A: vi does _not_ yank to the clipboard used by your desktop
environment, so pasting will not have the effect you desire
Situation B: Repeating the steps in Situation A doesn't negate the
fact that vi does _not_ yank the clipboard to your desktop
environment. So pasting the second time will paste whatever was
already in the buffer.

Al.