I'm setting clipboard to unnamed. I can't claim to fully understand yet how
this (and related) options work so I played around a bit and found that it
works when I have the `exclude:` part of the default clipboard value (not
/etc/vimrc). That explains why it was working on the other machine (with
the same configuration) - there was no X server to share a clipboard with.

To me, it seems like the best solution is to set the clipboard to
`unnamedplus` and change the map to replace the `+`-register instead of the
`"`-register - using the plus instead of the star register because the star
register gets overwritten when selecting the text I'm trying to replace.

Thanks and a happy new year everyone!

On 31 December 2016 at 11:54, Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fr, 30 Dez 2016, Fabian Furger wrote:
>
> > A while ago I found a convenient map to get around that by replacing the
> > content of the default register:
> >
> > `vnoremap P p:call setreg('"', getreg('0'))<CR>`
> >
> > That worked fine in terminal vim 7.3 (the version in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)
> but
> > doesn't seem to work on my own machine (terminal vim 8 on ArchLinux).
> > Checking with `:reg "`, I see that it does indeed contain the right
> content,
> > but when pasting, it appears that the contents of the last selection
> register
> > `"*` is used instead - I'd need to explicitly paste from the unnamed
> register
> > `""p`.
> >
> > Do I misunderstand something or am I doing something wrong?
>
> What is your 'clipboard' setting?
>
> Best,
> Christian
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