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

[Tapas Mishra]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>> >>>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.
>
> I cannot replicate this behaviour. I cannot yank a line in vi and paste
> it into gedit. Are you (Tapas) sure this is what is happening?
Yes I most of the time do it like that.
If you yank into the "+ register, it will go into the x11 selection,
which can be pasted using Control+V.
For this you can see vim help (:help clipboard)
> Only if I mark the text in vi with the mouse can I paste it into gedit -
> and then only with a middle mouse click, not with Ctl-V.
>
> This is the behaviour I expect and that is familiar to me; vi is not
> X-aware.
>
> Regards, K.
>
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