Unable to replace text in visual mode with paste

[kubaracek]

Description

When I yank a word and then in visual mode select a text that I want to replace pressing p seems to delete the highlighted text which yanks it and paste it instead of the originally yanked text making it impossible to replace a text.

Update

Seems like osx layer causes this weird behaviour.

Reproduction guide

Highlight a word in visual mode.
press y to yank the selection
go to a word that you want to replace
go to visual mode and select this word
press p

Right now the word should be replaced with the yanked text but it's replaced with itself == makes no change to the word.

System Info

• OS: darwin
• Emacs: 24.5.1
• Spacemacs: 0.105.7
• Spacemacs branch: master (rev. 8a94bbf)
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Layers:

     '(
     auto-completion
     better-defaults
     ;; Languages
     emacs-lisp
     ruby
     scala
     markdown
     javascript
     shell-scripts
     yaml
     html
     dockerfile
     ruby-on-rails
     ;; org
     (shell :variables
             shell-default-height 30
             shell-default-position 'bottom)
     ;; spell-checking
     syntax-checking
     ;; version-control
     git
     github
     ;; themes
     themes-megapack
     colors
     ;; system
     osx
     tmux
     ;; chat
     erc
     )

[TheBB]

I can't reproduce this. It works as expected here.

[kubaracek]

Just tried to comment out all my layers and it works. So there must gotta be a one that causes this. Let me debug it

[kubaracek]

Ok debugged it by commenting out my active layers and this is caused by osx layer.

[nixmaniack]

I can confirm this and was surprised with this behaviour and wondered this must be the Vim way and continued using it! 😈

[nixmaniack]

I faced this in hybrid style(hybrid state). I think delete-selection-mode would be useful in hybrid-state.

[aspett]

Have been having this issue for ages. Did you find any good way to configure the osx layer to fix the issue?

[aspett]

Actually, just tried disabling the osx layer. Issue is still present for me

Steps I used to reproduce:

• Copy some text from website
• Visual line mode on some text in a buffer
• p
• Doesn't paste what I copied

---

• OS: osx yosemite
• Emacs: 24.5.1
• Spacemacs: 0.105.6
• Spacemacs branch: master
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Layers:

     emacs-lisp
     git
     ;; osx
     markdown
     org
     ruby-on-rails
     elixir
     restclient

[kubaracek]

Hi @aspett do you have any layer that uses your system clipboard in emacs? When I copy anything from web/(any other app) then p uses another (emacs) clipboard. Which is what I would except.

I have this simple config defined in dotspacemacs/user-config

(defun pbcopy ()
    (interactive)
    (call-process-region (point) (mark) "pbcopy")
    (setq deactivate-mark t))

  (defun pbpaste ()
    (interactive)
    (call-process-region (point) (if mark-active (mark) (point)) "pbpaste" t t))

  (defun pbcut ()
    (interactive)
    (pbcopy)
    (delete-region (region-beginning) (region-end)))

  (global-set-key (kbd "C-c c") 'pbcopy)
  (global-set-key (kbd "C-c v") 'pbpaste)
  (global-set-key (kbd "C-c x") 'pbcut)

This allows me to copy, paste and cut from/to my system clipboard using C-c c for copy C-c v for paste and C-c x for cut

[aspett]

Heya @jacobjakub. No, I've tried disabling all layers and reverting to a stock config, but no joy. I was expecting that copying to system clipboard would allow me to paste via p. I'd rather not set up special keybinds for pbcopy etc- having system clipboard copy into another register would be an ideal alternative.

[idrozd]

Same issue here

While this is not yet solved, one can use kill-ring (SPC r y) to avoid looking for and copying source of attempted paste second time

[Grimi94]

I am having the same issue with the osx layer

[felipeagc]

I was having the same issue with spacemacs and my own configuration on Arch Linux. Found this solution here. It worked for me, hope it helps.

[braham-snyder]

this is a duplicate of #3735

[FieryCod]

@felipeagc Thank you so much bro :)

[bobdanek]

I'm having a similar problem that sounds like the same root cause.

If I y something in visual mode, or yank a line while not in visual mode, move elsewhere, delete a word or line (d w or D), then p, the thing that gets pasted is the thing I just deleted, not thing thing I yanked.

System:

• OS: macOS 10.14.2 (18C54)
• SpaceMacs version: 0.200.13@26.1
• Emacs version: d12frosted/emacs-plus/emacs-plus: stable 26.1 (bottled), devel 26.1-rc1, HEAD

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[kubaracek]

I'm having a similar problem that sounds like the same root cause.

If I y something in visual mode, or yank a line while not in visual mode, move elsewhere, delete a word or line (d w or D), then p, the thing that gets pasted is the thing I just deleted, not thing thing I yanked.

System:

• OS: macOS 10.14.2 (18C54)
• SpaceMacs version: 0.200.13@26.1
• Emacs version: d12frosted/emacs-plus/emacs-plus: stable 26.1 (bottled), devel 26.1-rc1, HEAD

@bobdanek This is a default vim behavior :)) https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Remembering_previous_deletes/yanks

type :reg to see all the registers