>> When you quit vim in X11-based systems, you lose any data that was >> copied from vim to the system clipboard. You can find more information >> about this bug and how to fix it at >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ClipboardPersistence. > > I'm not 100% sure but I think this is an X11 security measure. So I'd check > that out before diving too deep into the Vim sources...
It isn't, but taking a conservative approach to copies by only copying a reference to the data until it's actually pasted is a deliberate choice by X for performance reasons. That's why the ClipboardManager specification exists - to allow applications like vim to say "I'm a user-facing application and I'd like my contents to be available after I've quit," without changing X's basic approach. You can check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipboard_manager and http://freedesktop.org/wiki/ClipboardManager for more information. Thanks! -Sarah Strong -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
