How to switch off automatic copy to clipboard in gVim

Question

When a text is selected in (my) gVim then is copied automaticaly into the clipboard (X11 behavior). While this has been ok under X11 it starts to anoy me in Windows and Mac OS. I am sure this can be switched off somewhere. But I just can't find the propper help page. Probably using the wrong search term for Google and :help.

Question: Which :set setting do I need to toggle to make Vim behave like an OS X or Windows and copy to the clipboard only on Ctrl-C. (Mapping are already are place)

PS: Working from a company provided IE without spell check - sorry about that.

Answer 1

You must have something like

set clipboard=unnamed

In one of your rc files. Remove that line. For more information:

:help 'clipboard'

(including the quotes)

See also:

:help x11-selection