vim-signify removes linebreaks from '+' register

[alols]

vim-signify removes linebreaks from '+' register

[mhinz]

Hmm, I can't reproduce this. I did the following steps:

• opened a VCS-controlled file with no changes
• :set clipboard=unnamedplus
• "+yy
• "+p a few times
• :w signify will get a diff and show the newly pasted lines as additions
• "+p still works as intended

I checked :reg in between a few times and could see nothing wrong, and to be honest, I can't see why Sy (or anything) would alter the value of a register.

This was tested with 7.4.5. Which version do you use?

[alols]

I just did some further debugging. This is caused by the system() function. So the problem is not with vim-signify but with Vim itself. No other plugin that I have calls system() as often as vim-signy so it never bothered me before. On all my machines I run Ubuntu 12.04 and the default Vim which is 7.3. I guess I will have to compile a newer version by myself to fix this.

[alols]

Checked out vim.org and turns out this was fixed with patch: 7.3.852 system() breaks clipboard text.

[mhinz]

Ah, good to know. Glad it's working now!