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

[Tapas Mishra]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> My purpose of reporting this message on list
>  is to find out if this is the correct behavior or it is a bug.
>http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1686955
>
>





On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:11 AM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> The issue with what happens in vim when you use the + register sounds
> like an incomplete or improper implementation in vim, possibly a bug,
> and should probably be reported to the appropriate person (Bram
> Moolenaar et al).
>