There is a lot of dogma surrounding doing things the "easy way" is Vim. Cut through that and your life will be much easier. For example, I type on Dvorak and "<

There is a lot of dogma surrounding doing things the "easy way" is Vim. Cut through that and your life will be much easier. For example, I type on Dvorak and "<ESC>:w<ENTER>" is uncomfortable and arduous when all I wish to do is save a file, which I do often. Then one day I woke up and realized Apple-S works perfectly well MacVim and is many times more efficient. Getting to the point, it is easy to copy and paste between windows using the system buffer. Just map copy and paste to something easy and familiar, say Ctrl-C/V/X, and go on with your life. I'm sure there is a "correct" way to accomplish what you are asking using registers, but quite frankly I don't know it and have never felt the need to learn. (I know this assumes you are using a graphical Vim.)