Pano misbehaves with (Neo)vim

[Vikareaj]

Description

Whenever a deletion is performed in vim, Pano will register it as a copy action.

Problem Explanation

Any type of deleting action will trigger it. Typing x in normal mode triggers it, d triggers it, dd triggers it, etc. Afterwards, Pano is populated with myriad single letters. (Every single deleted character gets its own place in the deletion history.)

Expected Behavior

A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen, and how the actual outcome differs:

• Pano shouldn't register deletions in vim as events to be retained in its history.
• It should behave the expected way: the system clipboard ignores vim deletion events, as do other gnome-shell extension clipboards

Reprodution

Install Pano. Install Neovim. You may need to also set the nvim option "unnamedplus" for integration with the system clipboard. To be clear, said options has never confused the system clipboard into recording vim deletion events, or other clipboard extesions.

Details

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It happens with any application?

• [ ] Yes, it applies to any application.
• [x ] No. Only with the following applications:
  • Neovim
• [ ] It works with the following applications that I have tried:
  • Fill in a list with any application that applies

It happens only on one computer?

• [ ] I don't know.
• [ x] No. I have tried it on more than one computer.

It happens only with some specific gnome configuration?

• [ x] I don't think that the configuration matters.
• [ ] Yes. Only if the following config is set up:
  • Fill in a list with any configuration tha applies.

It happens only with some specific extension installed?

• [ x] I don't think that the installed extensions affect the bug/behavior.
• [ ] Yes. Only if the following gnome extension is installed:
  • Fill in a list with any extension tha applies.
  • Fill in also any detail about the extensions that applies.

Diagnostics

Under what conditions does it happen?

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Environment

• GNOME Shell version: 44.3
• Distro: fedora
• Distro version: 38, I think. The current one.

[brunolpsousa]

Not a bug, that's exactly what unnamedplus does:

unnamedplus A variant of the "unnamed" flag which uses the
            clipboard register "+" (quoteplus) instead of
            register "*" for all yank, delete, change and put
            operations which would normally go to the unnamed
            register.  When "unnamed" is also included to the
            option, yank and delete operations (but not put)
            will additionally copy the text into register
            "*". See clipboard.

And in Providers:

To ALWAYS use the clipboard for ALL operations (instead of interacting with the "+" and/or "*" registers explicitly):

set clipboard+=unnamedplus

See 'clipboard' for details and options.

If you only want to sync yank and paste operations with the system clipboard, I suggest a custom keymap for this:

local keymap = vim.keymap.set
keymap({ "n", "v" }, "y", '"+y', { desc = "Yank to clipboard" })
keymap({ "n", "v" }, "p", '"+p', { desc = "Paste from clipboard" })
keymap({ "n", "v" }, "P", '"+P', { desc = "Paste from clipboard" })