On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote: > According to the help, Vim does save register + when quitting, as follows: > >> *x11-cut-buffer* >> There are, by default, 8 cut-buffers: CUT_BUFFER0 to CUT_BUFFER7. Vim >> only >> uses CUT_BUFFER0, which is the one that xterm uses by default. >> >> Whenever Vim is about to become unavailable (either via exiting or >> becoming >> suspended), and thus unable to respond to another application's selection >> request, it writes the contents of any owned selection to CUT_BUFFER0. If >> the >> "+ CLIPBOARD selection is owned by Vim, then this is written in >> preference, >> otherwise if the "* PRIMARY selection is owned by Vim, then that is >> written.
That is different than what Sarah is talking about. The above quoted behavior is useful for applications that still pay attention to CUT_BUFFERs, but X's CUT_BUFFERs are deprecated for various reasons (such as only handling latin-1 encoded data). Because of that, many applications/libraries do not even provide a means for interacting with CUT_BUFFERs (Gtk included). The proposal Sarah is referencing checks for the existence of a clipboard manager and, if it exists, transfers the clipboard's contents to that clipboard manager. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[email protected]> -- 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
