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

[Tapas Mishra]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Alan Pope <popey at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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

Excerpts
>From the vim help
4. Making Gui Selections
  *clipboard*
There is a special register for storing this selection, it is the "*
register.  Nothing is put in here unless the information about what text is
selected is about to change (e.g. with a left mouse click somewhere), or when
another application wants to paste the selected text.  Then the text is put
in the "* register.  For example, to cut a line and make it the current
selection/put it on the clipboard: >




> 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.
>



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