Evil numbered register behavior vis-a-vis vim

Mon Feb 3 18:14:39 CET 2014

Hi,

I believe you are running into this bug:
https://bitbucket.org/lyro/evil/issue/339/zero-register-0-has-odd-behavior

Basically, registers 0-9 are mapped to the emacs kill ring.  I don't
have any experience to say how this would be fixed though.

Allen

On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 07:52:42PM -0500, Currell Berry wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> First thanks to all who work on Evil.  It makes my days working in emacs
> much better.
> 
> One feature I use a lot in vim is, use 'yy' to yank a line, perform some
> arbitrary editing, possibly including deletions, trusting that vim will
> hold onto the yanked text in the 0 register until I yank another text, and
> then, finally, pasting the text back with '"0p'.  Evil doesn't implement
> the same behavior here.
> 
> This link describes how it's supposed to work in vim.
> 
> http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/advanced-vim-registers/
> """
> Numbered registers
> 
> The read-only registers 0 through 9 are your "historical record" registers.
> The register 0 will always contain the most recently yanked text, but never
> deleted text; this is handy for performing a yank operation, at least one
> delete operation, and then pasting the text originally yanked with "0p.
> 
> The registers 1 through 9 are for deleted text, with "1 referencing the
> most recently deleted text, "2 the text deleted before that, and so on up
> to "9.
> """
> 
> Note that register 0 never contains deleted text.  In Evil (I have version
> 1.0-dev) register 0 DOES contain deleted text (try it out), therefore the
> workflow described above does not work.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is done on purpose or you've had this discussion
> before, but I know I'd love this particular feature to work the same way as
> vim.  Would this be easy to fix?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Currell

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