paste after black hole delete about whitespaste.vim HOT 3 CLOSED

Fascinating problem. From what I'm seeing, this looks like a bug in Vim.

Both whitespaste and vim-pasta use the v:register variable, which is set to the register you used to paste. For instance, performing "ap would set v:register to a and then the plugins can take the value from that register and paste it.

Oddly enough, performing "_dd sets v:register to _. Well, this in particular is not odd, but after the mapping is performed, v:register is not reset to its default value, causing this issue.

If you "_dd and then move a bit, for instance just press j, you will then be able to paste correctly, since the v:register variable is cleared as it should be.

The good news is I just pushed a workaround for your issue within whitespaste. The bad news is that this is not a general solution, since the same issue exists with any other register. Also, vim-pasta has the same issue due to the author using v:register in the same way. I'll open up an issue there as well and I'll write to the vim mailing list for a more general solution.

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Thank you Andrew,

For the thorough response and the preliminary workaround.

I understand that Vim should not set the v:register to the black hole register, as its whole point is not to paste what has been deleted last.

Let's see what the vim_dev thread brings about!

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There's not much more I can do about this issue, I think. I wish I'd pasted a link to the mailing list thread, but either way, I'm pretty sure I got no response :/.

I'm going to close this issue for the moment.

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