Ingo Karkat wrote: > >> Hello Vim developers, > >> > >> The current discussion about v:register and "unnamedplus" reminded me of > >> a patch I had sent some time ago. It used to be in the todo list, but > >> apparently isn't any more. (Maybe it was accidentally removed when Bram > >> accepted another related same-day patch from me.) > >> > >> To recap, I'd like to improve the help text for v:register and correct > >> the edge case of v:register value immediately after startup. Old message > >> and revised help text suggestion below. > > > > Please make this patch against the latest version. I did include some > > of it. > > Ah, sorry. It's hard to keep up with the runtime updates, as you do them > in batches, not atomic commits referencing the patch or origin. I'm fine > with the updated help text, so there's only the issue of the initial > (empty) value of v:register immediately after startup. Granted, it's an > edge case that only occurs when the very first command given is a custom > normal mode mapping that uses v:register, but a bug nonetheless. This > patch, updated against 7.3.322, fixes it.
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