When I yank or delete text in vim, and run :reg
, I see that it's going in to register "
. But when I paste, I see "E353: Nothing in register: *"
What I get out of this is that vim is yanking to "
but pasting from *
.
:set clipboard?
\clipboard=
:echo version
\704
Is it possible to change the register that vim attempts to yank from? Or am I asking the wrong question?
EDIT:
To yank, I use yy
(or dd
or ci'
etc).
You can't change the default register: it will always be the unnamed register, "
.
What you can do, though, is synchronize the unnamed register with the clipboard register:
set clipboard^=unnamed
See :help 'clipboard'
.
For reference…
Vim's documentation generally advises to add your custom values to the default ones rather than overriding them. You can do that with +=
to append or ^=
to prepend. On Windows or Mac OS X, the default value of clipboard
is empty so set clipboard=unnamed
could be enough but the default value on Linux doesn't accept anything after its last entry so unnamed
must be prepended. set clipboard^=unnamed
is a safer, cross-platform, choice:
:set clipboard^=unnamed
:set clipboard?
Linux: unnamed,autoselect,exclude:cons\|linux
Mac OS X: unnamed
Windows: unnamed
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