Bug#261596: vim: Yanking text and then pasting in Mozilla does not work

Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:55:03 -0500

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This isn't a bug in either program.  This behavior is because the yank
you performed just placed the text in X's PRIMARY selection.  This is
used for visual selections.  If you want the text to be in X's CLIPBOARD
(so you can use an application's "paste" operation), you should yank the
text into the "+ register.  E.g., to yank a line into the + register,
use:

"+yy

Vim's quoteplus help section (:help quoteplus) describes the difference
in behavior between "+ and "*.

Other useful help topics:
:help quotestar
:help y

James
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GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan@jamessan.com>

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