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> it behaves differently on two machines with identical .vimrc once and it turned out that it kept loading some files from the depths of /usr/share/vim

Yeah, as if the default stuff wasn't bad enough, distros tend to fuck with that stuff. Like Debuntu has an excessive amount of shit, it's as bad as what they do to bash but at least with bash, you can stop it loading the system defaults.

> but it doesn't have any clipboard buffer

If you mean "* then the replace is just piping to xclip.

> why did they do that?

Because vim is the gtk of text editors: they took at thing that was inoffensive and often useful, and they just played Katamari with it.