On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2014-10-01, Ben Fritz wrote: > > > On Wednesday, October 1, 2014 8:58:08 AM UTC-5, Salman Halim wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I recently compiled GVim on my Windows 7 machine (7.4.463) and > > > > have found that the default yank no longer goes to the system > > > > clipboard. On my previous build (7.4.307), it does. My > > > > 'clipboard' is set to unnamed, which I set many years ago. > > > > > > > > On 307, if I type yiw, I can immediately paste this elsewhere, > > > > including inside GVim. On 463, it has no effect on the system > > > > clipboard at all (previous contents remain unchanged), so > > > > pasting elsewhere doesn't work (it still works in GVim because > > > > it's using the unnamed "" register for everything). > > > > > > > > Typing :reg shows that "" and "0 have the newly yanked text, but > > > > "* does not. > > > > > > > > Explicitly prefixing with "* does work, but this wasn't required > > > > in 307. > > > > > > > > Any ideas? I know that's rather a large number of patches. > > > > > > > > > > Are you CERTAIN that 'clipboard' currently contains "unnamed"? > > > Type ":verbose set clipboard?" to determine that. This should > > > work, and indeed it works for me on a very slightly older path > > > level (430). > > > > I've been seeing funny behavior with the clipboard after a recent > > update, too. I just haven't taken the time to troubleshoot it. It > > used to "just work" and now it doesn't. The symptom is the message, > > "Nothing in register *" (or something like that) when I copy text in > > one program (maybe Vim) and try to paste in another Vim instance > > with p. I have to use "+p instead. > > > Gary > > Gary, glad someone else is seeing this, also. I'd be interested to see if > you're on patch 430, as is Ben, or newer or older. > Ben, yes, I am CERTAIN that 'clipboard' currently contains "unnamed"; I > did check before I claimed that it did in my original email, but I > appreciate your thoroughness. The output of ":verbose set clipboard?" is: > clipboard=unnamed Last set from c:/vim/_vimrc > The specific line from my _vimrc is: > set clipboard=unnamed > Thank you, > Salman -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
