Thank you Tony Mechelynck, Eli the Bearded, and John Little. This does stem from a fundamental misunderstanding of the X clipboard. Thank you for fortifying that understanding. I will proceed to install a clipboard manager.
MCP On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 8:56 PM John Little <[email protected]> wrote: > Eli the Bearded explained why the clipboard is "being cleared". > > TL;DR install a clipboard manager. > > The solution for most users on X is the DE runs a clipboard manager. I > presume that your Arch install is bare bones and you haven't installed one > yet. The Arch wiki entry for clipboard > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Clipboard lists a few options. Such > a manager watches the clipboard and copies it, so that when vim exits it is > still available. "full featured" managers have things like a history, > allowing some manipulation, and knowing about URLs. > > > > If you are not on X, > > -- > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/2025fe3c-49cb-445c-b8c6-00a237b00264%40googlegroups.com > . > -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CADzJjDRUrqRBocFRC76ZhY_PKaN5dPhmW54S_ygV9HptvhmgxQ%40mail.gmail.com.
