In visual mode selection is automatically yanked

[nigredo-tori]

1. Install IDEA Community Edition.
2. Install Intellimacs as described in README.md.
3. Use this .ideavimrc (the issue can be reproduced with the default one, but the rest doesn't make a difference):

   source ~/.intellimacs/spacemacs.vim

4. Open a file (I have checked this for Scala and BUILD files).
5. Select some text (e. g. V, j, j, j), and press Esc to return to normal mode.
6. Paste (p).
7. See that the previously selected text is pasted, even though it was not yanked by the user!

This is annoying when attempting to replace one piece of text with another. Usually I do it like this:

1. Select and yank the first region.
2. Select the second region.
3. Paste.

This no longer works, since on step 2 I lose the yanked data.

This seems to be an Intellimacs bug because with empty .ideavimrc selection works as expected.

[marcoieni]

PR welcome 👍

[dalanicolai]

Created issue here

[gudzpoz]

Changing unnamed to unnamedplus seems to resolve this issue for me (Linux, X11). But I guess the behavior might be platform-dependent?

diff --git i/spacemacs/settings.vim w/spacemacs/settings.vim
index 076bf7d..8b47cfb 100644
--- i/spacemacs/settings.vim
+++ w/spacemacs/settings.vim
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ set showmode
 
 " Use the clipboard register '*' for all yank, delete, change and put operations
 " which would normally go to the unnamed register.
-set clipboard+=unnamed
+set clipboard+=unnamedplus
 
 " Search as characters are entered
 set incsearch