I am on Neovim.
This is really annoying and weird.
When I make a selection in Visual Mode and copy, then select a text and then paste, this paste only works once. For the next time, I again have to go to the original source and then do the copy operation all over and then paste.
What I am doing:
- Press
v
to go into Visual Mode. - Select the text I want to copy with my arrow keys.
- Press
y
to copy. - Press
Esc
to go intoNormal Mode
. - Navigate the area of text I want to paste, with my arrow keys
- Press
v
forVisual Mode
and select the text I want to change. - Press
p
to paste. This works fine. - Press
Esc
to go intoNormal Mode
. - If I select another piece of text and press
p
nothing happens. I have to redo the copy process all over. Why ???
This is incredibly weird and frustrating.
Why is this happening ? Is the clipboard overwritten in Visual Mode each time?
How do I get "sane" behavior? That is make the clipboard persist after the first paste.