You can also use the mouse with vim. set mouse=a and the behaviour is the same, tripple click hilights a line and you can drag your mouse around to highlight a

You can also use the mouse with vim. set mouse=a and the behaviour is the same, tripple click hilights a line and you can drag your mouse around to highlight a contiguous group of lines. regarding the system clipboard, yeah thats messy, but you can easily map a key to toggle the paste mode (set pastetoggle=<f11>) or get the content from the the clipboard via some keybinding (shift-F7) map <S-F7> :r!xclip -o<CR>