Proper use of the clipboard
Titus von der Malsburg
malsburg at posteo.de
Mon Dec 23 16:13:57 CET 2013
José, I wasn't talking about Evil's internal clipboard. The terminology
is a bit confusing, at least under the X window system. By saying
clipboard I was referring to the clipboard that is used for copying text
between applications, say from Evil to your web browser. When you press
x in Vim and then Ctrl-v in your web browser, the pasted text is not the
character that was deleted by the x operation because x usually doesn't
copy to the general system-wide clipboard. The same goes for other yank
and delete operations (unless you send stuff to the + register). My
proposal, was to change Evil to copy yanked and deleted text to the
system-wide clipboard by default but to exclude x from that because
copying single characters is not a common use case. Of course, I don't
want to change how the x operator works inside Evil and xp should always
work the way you descibe it.
Titus
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