tOn (09/02/13 11:41), Alessandro Pezzoni <alessandro_pezz...@lavabit.com> put 
forth the proposition:
>>>>On 02/09/2013 10:55 AM, David Woodfall wrote:
>>>>> When I copy lines from one tex file, open a different one and paste
>>>>> I'm not getting a proper paste. Instead it pastes what looks like an
>>>>> escape sequence ^[. On testing it does paste into a filetype other
>>>>> than tex, so the yank line is working, just not the paste.
>>>>>
>>>>> What can I do to paste properly between tex files?
>>
>> I've noticed that it works when using a split window, but not when
>> closing vim and opening the second file, if that's any clue.
>
>When you yank some text in vim, it puts it in a register which gets
>cleared when you close vim. You can do one of two things: either open
>both files in the same session of vim, e.g. with split windows or
>tags, or prepend "* to your yanking command, so that vim puts the
>yanked text in a register shared with the system clipboard. For more
>information on this, have a look look at the relevant help page [1].
>
>Alessandro
>
>[1] http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/gui_x11.html#x11-selection

Thanks Alessandro. It's a bit strange how it works with other files
without need to add "*, but at least I know how now.

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