patch 8.0.1208: 'statusline' drops empty group with highlight change commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/6b89dbb55f84c485310c8c9e094dbafe3ecbace6 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sun Oct 22 14:22:16 2017 +0200 patch 8.0.1208: 'statusline' drops empty group with highlight change Problem: 'statusline' drops empty group with highlight change. Solution: Do not drop an empty group if it changes highlighting. (Marius Gedminas, closes #2228)

func Test_yank_put_clipboard()
  new
  call setline(1, ['a', 'b', 'c'])
  set clipboard=unnamed
  g/^/normal yyp
  call assert_equal(['a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c'], getline(1, 6))

  set clipboard&
  bwipe!
endfunc

func Test_nested_global()
  new
  call setline(1, ['nothing', 'found', 'found bad', 'bad'])
  call assert_fails('g/found/3v/bad/s/^/++/', 'E147')
  g/found/v/bad/s/^/++/
  call assert_equal(['nothing', '++found', 'found bad', 'bad'], getline(1, 4))
  bwipe!
endfunc