Selection register "*" is clobbered whenever a user textobj is used about vim-textobj-user HOT 4 OPEN

I couldn't reproduce the problem. The * register is not used by default unless it is explicitly specified like "*yil or 'clipboard' option is set to unnamed. In the latter case, built-in text objects also yank text to the * register.

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The * register is not used by default.

That's not true. My &clipboard is set to the default value autoselect,exclude:cons\|linux.

The autoselect value in this option means this:

autoselect: Works like the 'a' flag in 'guioptions': If present, then whenever Visual mode is started, or the Visual area extended, Vim tries to become the owner of the
windowing system's global selection or put the selected text on the clipboard used by the selection register "*. See |guioptions_a| and |quotestar| for details. When the GUI is active, the 'a' flag in 'guioptions' is used, when the GUI is not active, this "autoselect" flag is used.
Also applies to the modeless selection.

I'm running under Linux by the way, with text-mode vim enabled for xterm clipboard (+xterm_clipboard) and X11 stuff (+X11).

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Anyway your Vim behaves as documented. The problem is not caused by vim-textobj-user.

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How would you suggest I configure vim such that:

• Visual selection is automatically stored on the * register
• Using a user textobj leaves the * register untouched.

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