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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