Re: Missing selection register (*)?

2011-03-28 Thread Ben Fritz
On Mar 25, 2:41 pm, Suresh Govindachar sgovindac...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello,   On Windows, after yanking a line, :echo @* shows the yanked   line.  But on Unix, there doesn't seem to be anything in the *   register -- it is as though there is no * register at all!   Version of vim used on

Missing selection register (*)?

2011-03-25 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Hello, On Windows, after yanking a line, :echo @* shows the yanked line. But on Unix, there doesn't seem to be anything in the * register -- it is as though there is no * register at all! Version of vim used on Fedora 14 was: :version VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15,

Re: Missing selection register (*)?

2011-03-25 Thread Tim Chase
On 03/25/2011 02:41 PM, Suresh Govindachar wrote: On Windows, after yanking a line, :echo @* shows the yanked line. But on Unix, there doesn't seem to be anything in the * register -- it is as though there is no * register at all! Version of vim used on Fedora 14 was:

Re: Missing selection register (*)?

2011-03-25 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2011-03-25, Tim Chase wrote: On 03/25/2011 02:41 PM, Suresh Govindachar wrote: On Windows, after yanking a line, :echo @* shows the yanked line. But on Unix, there doesn't seem to be anything in the * register -- it is as though there is no * register at all! Version of vim

RE: Missing selection register (*)?

2011-03-25 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Tim Chase wrote: On 03/25/2011 02:41 PM, Suresh Govindachar wrote: On Windows, after yanking a line, :echo @* shows the yanked line. But on Unix, there doesn't seem to be anything in the * register -- it is as though there is no * register at all! Version of vim used on Fedora