Paste in Visual mode as in Vim

[ReneFroger]

This is by default by Evil. Paste some text from another application. Then I paste it into Emacs inside normal mode with p. Then switch back to the another application, select another text, copy it. Switch back to Emacs, visually select the text, and press paste. But the text inside the region will not be replaced with the text from the clipboard.

This is not with the default Vim.

See the answer below, it helped a lot of people.

http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/14940/emacs-doesnt-paste-in-evils-visual-mode-with-every-os-clipboard/15054#15054

If Spacemacs would be like Vim, then this option should be set.

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[ReneFroger]

Why is this stale? It's still relevant for me.

[duianto]

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I remember having to use that suggested expression (from https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/14940/evil-mode-visual-selection-copies-text-to-clipboard-automatically/15054#15054):

(fset 'evil-visual-update-x-selection 'ignore)

years ago when I started using Spacemacs, because any visual selection change (even just moving the cursor by one character) copied the selected text to the Windows clipboard.

I don't know when that behavior was changed, but I haven't needed that expression or seen that issue for years.

So it's likely that the issue was present when this issue was posted: Nov 9, 2015

Your reproduction steps seem to be working as expected for me now,
on both the master and develop branches of Spacemacs,
and without Spacemacs, with just Emacs and the Evil package installed:

• Copy text from this issues reproduction steps:

text from another application

• Switch to Emacs and open the scratch buffer: C-x b scratch RET (SPC b s in Spacemacs)
• Paste: p
• Switch back to this issue and copy the text:

select another text

• Switch back to Emacs and select the previously pasted text: V (uppercase v)
• Paste: p

Observed

The selected text was replaced as expected.

Windows 1903

#### System Info :computer:
- OS: windows-nt
- Emacs: 26.3
- Spacemacs: 0.300.0
- Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. 1d797ffa4)
- Graphic display: t
- Distribution: spacemacs
- Editing style: vim
- Completion: ivy
- Layers:
```elisp
(autohotkey
 (auto-completion :variables auto-completion-use-company-box t)
 command-log emacs-lisp git ivy imenu-list javascript
 (markdown :variables markdown-live-preview-engine 'vmd markdown-command "vmd")
 multiple-cursors org pdf python
 (shell :variables shell-default-shell 'shell shell-default-height 30 shell-default-position 'bottom)
 spell-checking syntax-checking treemacs version-control)
```
- System configuration features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS THREADS LCMS2

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[mcardozo]

Any solution?

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