[vim/vim] Vim pastes visual selection as '*' clipboard register despite it may not own the clipboard (Issue #20057)

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lilydjwg created an issue (vim/vim#20057)

Steps to reproduce

1. gvim --clean
2. Enter visual mode
3. Select some text in another application; this makes Vim lose the primary selection clipboard's ownership
4. Middle-click to paste the primary selection (or "*p to try to replace the visual selection with the primary selection)
5. Vim pastes the visual selection, not the primary selection
6. It regains the primary selection automatically

https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/0f9218851dc91a855c3d186ccd05f550907cf37e/src/ops.c#L3900-L3906

Practically this means I can't paste into Vim from primary selection when I leave Vim in visual mode accidentally or because I have just pasted from Vim into another application before.

Expected behaviour

Vim fetches and pastes the primary selection.

Version of Vim

9.2.389

Environment

Arch Linux, GNOME Terminal / GTK 3 GUI, Wayfire Wayland compositor.

Logs and stack traces

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