Christian Brabandt (Vim Github Repository) wrote:
As far as the clipboard goes: it copies the clipboard into a local
variable, and only if the clipboard value has changed during the
course of netrw's operation will netrw restore the clipboard value
(thus avoiding having netrw always be the last one to modify the
clipboard).
How about adding a configuration option to leave the clipboard alone
if set. This would solve two problems:
* the clipboard won't be accessed at all if configured. That means,
Neovim guys wouldn't have any problems, since the external
clipboard provider may be slow.
* It won't corrupt the clipboard in case of any non-text items in it.
People complaining could then set this variable and be fine.
The only problem -- something netrw does inadvertently modifies the
clipboard. That ends up with it being unexpectedly changed, which means
"clipboard won't be accessed at all" is not going to happen. Its like
history -- I don't want to change the history, but there's a lot of
operations that netrw does which change the history -- so there's a lot
of code to keep the history unchanged. I could have netrw optionally not
restore the clipboard, but I'm sure (because of earlier complaints) that
there will be a raft of new complaints. Well, I guess I'll put in
yet-another-option to prevent netrw from doing a save&restore of the
clipboard (g:netrw_clipboard).
It'd be a help if vim itself had an option to leave something alone (ie.
setl leavealone="history:clipboard:jumps"); then netrw and other plugins
could set that, do their job, then unset it.
Regards,
Chip Campbell
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