On Monday, April 10, 2017 at 9:39:20 AM UTC-5, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The Vim documentation says the following under “quote_quote” about the
> unnamed register ("):
>
> >
> > Vim fills this register with text deleted with the “d”, “c”, “s”, “x”
> > commands or copied with the yank “y” command, regardless of whether
> > or not a specific register was used (e.g. "xdd). This is like the
> > unnamed register is pointing to the last used register. Thus when
> > appending using an uppercase register name, the unnamed register
> > contains the same text as the named register.
> However, the part with uppercase register names does not work for me
> when deleting. I only get the last deleted text into the unnamed
> register. For example, when I enter "add and then "Add, register a
> contains both deleted lines, but the unnamed register only contains the
> last one, although it should contain the same text as register a.
> However, things work as expected with the yank (y) command.
>
> I asked on StackExchange why this is and several people told me that
> this seemed like a bug to them. So is this a bug? If not, why is Vim
> behaving like this?
>
> All the best,
> Wolfgang
I can't reproduce this in 8.0.427 64-bit gvim on Windows. What version of Vim
are you using? Does it do the same thing without your configuration loaded,
e.g. when launching with "gvim -N -u NONE -i NONE"?
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