From: Aaron Toponce on
On 7/19/2010 10:49 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
> In Ubuntu it was possible to yank some lines of text, exit Vim, open a
> new Vim instance and paste the yanked lines. In debian it is necessary
> to use the * register. How can I reproduce the Ubuntu behavior?

Not sure what "the * register" is, but I've always used:

"+Y to yank the current line/selection
"+P to paste what's in the clipboard

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