> And then there's Vim which, depending on how it was built for the respective distro, doesn't seem to accept any way to copy or paste text. I install GVim, si

> And then there's Vim which, depending on how it was built for the respective distro, doesn't seem to accept any way to copy or paste text. I install GVim, since it tends to be compiled with the most features enabled. You can still use the vim executable in a terminal and ignore the gvim one. Then it's just "+y / "+p to copy/paste, or add this to vimrc to map it to \y, \p: noremap <Leader>y "+y noremap <Leader>p "+p