On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, September 10, 2012 8:22:33 AM UTC-5, Alexandre Provencio wrote: >> Hello guys, >> >> >> >> I would like to know why Gvim is not replacing the selected text with >> >> the contents of the register. This does not happen with regular Vim or >> >> when cb=unnamedplus or cb=unnamed,unnamedplus. >> >> >> >> What I'm doing is using the unnamed register with the usual 'y' and >> >> 'p' not specifying it directly, and: >> >> 1) yank a text >> >> 2) visual select the text to be replaced >> >> 3) put the text >> >> >> >> As expected, the selected text goes to the unnamed register, but the >> >> yanked text does not replace the selection which stays intact. >> >> >> >> Vim 7.3-659, Ubuntu 12.04 > > Selecting text in Linux normally will automatically place the text in the > selection clipboard or whatever it's called, so that you can paste it with a > middle-click of your mouse. gvim by default also does this. So, to rephrase, > you: > > 1. Yank text into * register > 2. Visually select text, placing it in the * register (overriding what was > there) > 3. Paste the * register > > Sounds like it's doing the "right thing" to me. > > Check to see if "a" is in your guioptions setting. If present, selecting text > in visual mode in gvim will automatically place it in the * register. It > sounds like you don't actually want this, so if you've left guioptions at the > default (or kept "a" if you've modified it) then I think removing the "a" > should allow gvim to act as you like. > Exactly! Thank you Ben :)
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