How to completely disable os clipboard integration

Question

The vim binary shipped with the git for windows package has integration with OS clipboard enabled and I hate it. So many times I attempt to replace a word with something from the clipboard with cw + shiftinsert, only to be frustrated because the cw command ruined the clipboard by overwriting with the thing I wanted to replace.

So how do I disable this completely and forever, so that vim never ever interacts with the OS clipboard?

Have you tried set clipboard="" in your vimrc? :h g:clipboard — statox, Feb 23 '21 at 14:33
@statox Make your comment into an answer, it worked (although there is no g:clipboard help entry). — hlovdal, Feb 23 '21 at 14:49
My bad I used the wrong topic and I didn't realize because :h g:clipboard exists in neovim but not in vim. — statox, Feb 23 '21 at 15:06

statox · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-23T16:09:36.303

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See the doc for :h 'clipboard' it is used to tell to vim to use different system clipboards or none of them. (The behavior is a bit different between vim and neovim).

In your case you want to use no clipboard so put that in your vimrc:

set clipboard=""

As Ben pointed out in the comments the "" is not necessary you can write only set clipboard=

edited Feb 23 '21 at 16:09

answered Feb 23 '21 at 15:05

statox

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@D.BenKnoble you're right but I never got used to this syntax, having nothing after a = still makes me uncomfortable :) – statox Feb 23 '21 at 16:08

How to completely disable os clipboard integration

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