Point taken about quotes being comment indicators in my set clipboard="".
I completely forgot about the black hole register! Isn't vim wonderful just to have that concept! Thank you ZyX - and John for making sure I didn't miss the black hole advice. Praful -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.