On Saturday 28 February 2009, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On 28/02/09 17:26, Tim Johnson wrote: > > I'm curious as to why you feel it is a bad thing. Your opinion > > is of interest. > > Mainly for its wastefulness. I feel that not clobbering the clipboard > unless I specifically say so, and using only the unnamed register for > most yanks and puts inside Vim, is more economical, and doesn't > needlessly interfere with what I might be doing in other applications. Understood. That's a good point. Long ago I mapped ,c to "+y and it is actually quite efficient. It has been copying from the ex-command line that has flumoxed me the most. > Ah. I think the only way to copy what Vim displays below the > command-line is by modeless selection: see > > :help modeless-selection > :help modeless-and-clipboard > :help c_CTRL-Y OK. Will digest that. thanks as always regards tim
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