dotfiles.git

Vim deletes go to a useful register again.
Parent 5ddadd0
dblume

dblume commited on 2025-06-10 22:18:07
Showing 2 changed files, with 18 additions and 15 deletions. 

Argh. Turns out my muscle memory does rely on deletes
going to a register. Writing a note to myself that really
the only way to do puts (pastes) that overwrite is to do
so over visual selections, not deletes (d,D) or changes (c,C).
.config/nvim/init.vim
View file @ 4d07a5c
... ... 
@@ -30,16 +30,17 @@ set title titlestring=%f%m\ -\ nvim
30 30 
 "            \   'cache_enabled': 0,
31 31 
 "            \ }
32 32
33 
-" N.B. Don't just use unnamed register for clipboard (set clipboard=unnamed)
34 
-"      Delete operations would overwrite clipboard before pasting.
33 
+" David, you rely on delete operations going to the default register.
34 
+" So remapping to deletes to go to _ won't work for you.
35 
+"
36 
+"    nnoremap d "_d   <-- you won't like this.
37 
+"
38 
+" Get used to using visual mode to select the text you want to replace
39 
+" with something that's in a register or the clipboard.
40 
+"
41 
+" Having said that, use unnamedplus.
35 42 
 set clipboard+=unnamedplus
36 43
37 
-" Deleting shouldn't overwrite the clipboard. Use yank when you want to copy.
38 
-nnoremap d "_d
39 
-nnoremap D "_D
40 
-vnoremap d "_d
41 
-vnoremap D "_D
42 
-
43 44 
 " Will remove these two remappings if unnamedplus (above) does the job
44 45 
 " Yank and put into the system Clipboard (register + or *)
45 46 
 " Otherwise make explicit commands "+yy "+y "+Y (or * instead of + as needed)
.vimrc
View file @ 4d07a5c
... ... 
@@ -18,15 +18,17 @@ set ruler           " Show cursor pos on right side of status bar
18 18 
 " Set the title of the terminal window. Consider changing titlestring, %t, %M
19 19 
 set title titlestring=%f%m\ -\ vim
20 20
21 
-" N.B. Don't just use unnamed register for clipboard (set clipboard=unnamed)
22 
-"      Delete operations would overwrite clipboard before pasting.
21 
+" David, you rely on delete operations going to the default register.
22 
+" So remapping to deletes to go to _ won't work for you.
23 
+"
24 
+"    nnoremap d "_d   <-- you won't like this.
25 
+"
26 
+" Get used to using visual mode to select the text you want to replace
27 
+" with something that's in a register or the clipboard.
28 
+"
29 
+" Having said that, use unnamedplus.
23 30 
 set clipboard=unnamed,unnamedplus
24 31
25 
-" Deleting shouldn't overwrite the clipboard. Use yank when you want to copy.
26 
-nnoremap d "_d
27 
-nnoremap D "_D
28 
-vnoremap d "_d
29 
-vnoremap D "_D
30 32
31 33 
 " Will remove these two remappings if unnamedplus (above) does the job
32 34 
 " Yank and put into the system Clipboard (register + or *)
33 35