copying from vi to clipboard does not over writes clip board buffer

[Mark Widdicombe]

>From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Tapas Mishra [mightydreams at gmail.com]
>Sent: 16 February 2011 10:10
>Here is a situation
>Situation A
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>I open a text file in vi
>and scroll to some line
>now press Esc
>and :"+yy
>the line gets yanked
>I open gedit and Ctrl+V
>and then I see the line is pasted.

>Situation B
>------------------------------------------------
>But the same does not work for a different situation.
>Suppose I opened some link in Firefox and do a Ctrl+C and in gedit I do Ctrl+V
>then I can see the link getting pasted but if now I repeat the steps I
>described above in Situation A
>then each time on gedit I do not see the text from vi copied but the
>link repeated which I do not expect
>because it should have been over written by the yanked line and the
>previous link of firefox should not be copied.
The yy command in vi does not place the lines you yanked into the clipboard,
it places them in vi's undo buffer.  You should not be able to paste yanked lines
into another application; for that you should highlight and *copy* the
lines to the clipboard.

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