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Currently when I select a bit of text replacing another bit of text (eg "viwp" to paste over the current word) it copies the thing I just replaced into kill ring. So if I try to paste over another bit it has lost the original thing I copied and instead pastes the thing I previously replaced. Obviously I can cycle through the kill ring but that's fiddly and a total pain.

Any idea what variables to look at? I think this happened when I upgraded evil-mode.

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  • This is probably related to delete-selection-mode, but I'm not sure how to get the behavior you want. Use M-x find-library RET delsel RET to take a look at the code.
    – nanny
    Commented Feb 18, 2015 at 21:47
  • delsel isn't loaded but I think it's just standard evil-mode behavior to delete selection before pasting. What I don't want is for that selection to end up in the kill-ring.
    – Thomas Parslow
    Commented Feb 20, 2015 at 10:42

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Reset to default
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Came across this while Googling for a solution to this problem. What I found to work is part of the Spacemacs FAQ:

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

See also: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/15054/84

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That is evil's default behaviour, parallel to VIM. The variable to change this behavior is: evil-kill-on-visual-paste.

To discard the overwritten text:

(setq evil-kill-on-visual-paste nil)
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