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If the + and * registers are not modified by yank operations, then
shouldn't v:register = " when yanking text (3rd line in the above
sample). Since @+ is not modified at all.
:help v:register mentions nothing about the *effective register*, only
the one supplied (and since 7.3.186, this considers the changed
default for the "unnamed" and "unnamedplus" values).
v:register The name of the register supplied to the last normal
mode command. Empty if none were supplied. |getreg()| |setreg()|
In my understanding, v:register is mainly necessary for custom
operations that work with registers, not for built-in commands like
yank. Is your inquiry about theoretical correctness, or do you have an
actual use case that is affected by this? In the latter case, I would
agree that v:register should account for the yank command. (But I
don't know how easy that would be to implement.)
Then YankRing plugin
(http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1234) relies upon
v:register to determine:
a) which register to capture changes from
b) which register to update when retrieving the next value (from the
ring) for pasting
Unfortunately, there really is no work around for it either.
I could choose "+yy, or in this case yy. There is no way to distinguish
those commands.
Dave
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