Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux

Re:Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux by xigoi on Friday August 15, 2025 @10:49AM (#44913136)

> I do agree that I would be in favor of making that the default register as well so that ex. just `yy`/`p` used it.

  set clipboard=unnamedplus

I deliberately do not use this beause I don’t want random Vim edits to clobber my system clipboard.

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Re:Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux by opan on Friday August 15, 2025 @11:42AM (#44913767)

Agreed. I am completely okay with the separate clipboards. Allows stuff like cc or dd followed by pasting in from the system clipboard (different text) without having to go re-copy something because you just overwrote it. I used spacemacs for a while and I absolutely hated the clipboard syncing.

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Re:Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday August 15, 2025 @12:10PM (#44914156)

Well, vim has an absurdly large number of registers. You could just do ex.

  "add"+p

(that is, "delete this line into register a, then paste from +")

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