Yank doesn't seem to work in Vim8 if nvim also installed

[chrischen]

It seems if you do yank in vim8 it doesn't go into the yank history. But if you open neovim and yank, it shows up in the history in vim8.

Put (pasting) in vim8 then does not work. Interestingly enough OS clipboard works.

[chrischen]

I found the issue in line 48 of general.vim

if has('clipboard') && has('vim_starting')
	set clipboard& clipboard+=unnamedplus
endif

Not sure why it causes the problem in vim8 but not in neovim though.

[chrischen]

Was able to fix by changing to

if has('clipboard') && has('vim_starting')
	set clipboard& clipboard^=unnamed,unnamedplus
endif

Thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30691466/what-is-difference-between-vims-clipboard-unnamed-and-unnamedplus-settings.

Works in both vim and neovim now. I will do a pull request tomorrow.

[rafi]

Hi @chrischen - are you referring to _numbered registers? e.g. "1..9? These are only for deletions, not yanks. Try testing with just deletions.

[rafi]

@chrischen What is your OS? What's your output for :echo g:clipboard ?

[rafi]

Pushed a whole new rewrite of vim-config, 100% lua and lazy.nvim as package-manager, check it out...