If the aim is to behave like vim, then visual selections should go to the primary selection, text yanked into the + register should go into the clipboard and text yanked into the * register should go to the primary selection.
I've had no problems getting text to the clipboard/primary selection with the + and * registers; I don't use visual mode much so haven't tried that out. -Jason On December 22, 2013 8:48:27 AM PST, Titus von der Malsburg wrote: > Dear list! > > I'm a bit confused about Evil's interaction with the clipboard. When I > set x-select-enable-clipboard to t, visual selections are copied to the > clipboard as well as yanked and deleted text. However, when I set > x-select-enable-clipboard to nil, neither visual selections nor yanked > and deleted text are copied to the clipboard. Both behaviors seem > inconsistent with what other applications do under the X window > system. My understanding is that visual selections should go into the > primary selection while yanked and deleted text should go to the > clipboard. Is it possible to configure Evil to behave this way? My > googling didn't turn up anything useful. > > Titus > > _______________________________________________ implementations-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/implementations-list
