Using the 19 lines of text below (numbered sequentially in 1st 2 cols) as a test case - please save to unix file fmt file on Windows 10 file system to reproduce my problem.
My editor is gvim on Windows 10 64-bit: VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compiled Jun 12 2020 22:02:10) MS-Windows 64-bit GUI version with OLE support Included patches: 1-967 Compiled by appveyor-at-APPVYR-WIN How to reproduce error: Move to line 11 col 1 Type "a5dd (to delete 5 lines and store them in "a) Move to line 17 col 1 Type "bY (to copy line to "b) Move to line 19 col 1 Type "BY (to append line to "b) Move to line 10 col 1 Type 5dd (to cut lines 10, 16-19 into unnamed register) Move to line 6 col 1 Type p (to paste those 5 lines in unnamed register between the lines 6&7) Fails! Instead of pasting the 5 lines from unnamed register, it pastes the two lines from "b Given The following text (part of a WNBA boxscore with numbers added to col 1): -------------------------- save me to disk (I'm using Unix file fmt on 64-bit Doze 10 ---------- 1 2 ---------------------------------------------------- 3 4 5 ---------------------------------------------------- 6 7 8 ---------------------------------------------------- 9 10 aaaaaaa 4. 11 Game Dbl-Figures Leaders: 12 Player Pts FG% 3P% FT% RB AS BL ST TO PF EFF 13 bbbbbbbbb 12 (50 /0 /67 )/ 7/ 3/ 0/ 2/ 3/ 4/+15 14 cccccc 12 (57 /67 /100)/ 2/ 1/ 1/ 0/ 1/ 3/+12 15 ddddddd 10 (63 /0 /0 )/ 1/ 3/ 0/ 3/ 5/ 3/ +9 16 4 5-15 0-3 2-2 5-12 1-1 3-4 33.3 0.0 100 41.7 100 75 12 14 17 F 23-55 2-10 9-11 23-52 3-13 26-29 41.8 20 81.8 44.2 23.1 89.7 57 75 18 4 3 6 3 2 3 3 4 3 3 7 3 1 4 6 -1 -1 +2 -1 -2 19 F 13 19 5 10 4 17 22 9 14 32 13 4 20 17 -1 -13 -4 -3 -3 +5 ---------------------------------- end test file ----------------------------------------------- I doubt it matters, but I'm in the left window of a vertically even split 161 char window (80 & 80) for 55 lines. TIA, Bill -- -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/0d83cf2a-1322-4eaa-be01-497ba8f94c2dn%40googlegroups.com.