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You can also yank from Vim to the system clipboard with "+y Took me a year or so to learn that one

by kevinburke 14y ago

srijan4 14y ago
Or, you can add this to your vimrc to always yank to system clipboard: set clipboard+=unnamed
- LauriL 14y ago
  A very helpful setting. Thanks! I've been using the "+ register intensively. Your tip will save me from quite a lot of keystrokes in the future.
lloeki 14y ago
Of course it only works for non-terminal vim. Someone may make it work on Mac though by leveraging pb{copy,paste} in some clever way (can't remember the X11 equivalent ATM)
- natedub 14y ago
  It can work in terminal vim, too. I believe the special + register for the system clipboard is enabled by a compile option, but that may not be entirely accurate. I have Vim 7.3 installed via Macports and it works for me.
  - lloeki 14y ago
    I use OSX default vim. That might explain things. I'll try brew install macvim --override-system-vim to see if things improve. EDIT: it works.
  - mhd 14y ago
    Yes, it's the "+clipboard" option (as shown by :version). If you weren't doing macports (or brew) already, the downloadable MacVIM version does include a "Vim" binary that's usable on the commandline. Somewhere in /Applications/MacVIM.app/... (can't check at work). Just symlinking or simply setting `alias vim='<path_to_binary>` works perfectly. [MacVim]: http://code.google.com/p/macvim/ http://code.google.com/p/macvim/
- threedaymonk 14y ago
  The X11 equivalents are: pbcopy = xsel -bi pbpaste = xsel -b
AjithAntony 14y ago
FWIW, The + and * registers appear to behave the same on gvim for windows. I think * is actually expected to represent the system clipboard. :help clipboard Also another AWESOME tip , if you set an "a" among your guioptions, your visual selects and mouse selects automatically get copied to the * register. : help quotestar I realize that X environments mainly do this already, but not the visual select. Most of my editing is through SSH so I don't get to use the gui features much. The only time I use gvim is in windows, so it was pretty revolutionary for me.

You can also yank from Vim to the system clipboard with "+y Took me a year or so to learn that one

srijan4 14y ago

Or, you can add this to your vimrc to always yank to system clipboard: set clipboard+=unnamed

LauriL 14y ago
A very helpful setting. Thanks! I've been using the "+ register intensively. Your tip will save me from quite a lot of keystrokes in the future.

lloeki 14y ago

Of course it only works for non-terminal vim. Someone may make it work on Mac though by leveraging pb{copy,paste} in some clever way (can't remember the X11 equivalent ATM)

natedub 14y ago
It can work in terminal vim, too. I believe the special + register for the system clipboard is enabled by a compile option, but that may not be entirely accurate. I have Vim 7.3 installed via Macports and it works for me.
- lloeki 14y ago
  I use OSX default vim. That might explain things. I'll try brew install macvim --override-system-vim to see if things improve. EDIT: it works.
- mhd 14y ago
  Yes, it's the "+clipboard" option (as shown by :version). If you weren't doing macports (or brew) already, the downloadable MacVIM version does include a "Vim" binary that's usable on the commandline. Somewhere in /Applications/MacVIM.app/... (can't check at work). Just symlinking or simply setting `alias vim='<path_to_binary>` works perfectly. [MacVim]: http://code.google.com/p/macvim/ http://code.google.com/p/macvim/
threedaymonk 14y ago
The X11 equivalents are: pbcopy = xsel -bi pbpaste = xsel -b

AjithAntony 14y ago

FWIW, The + and * registers appear to behave the same on gvim for windows. I think * is actually expected to represent the system clipboard. :help clipboard Also another AWESOME tip , if you set an "a" among your guioptions, your visual selects and mouse selects automatically get copied to the * register. : help quotestar I realize that X environments mainly do this already, but not the visual select. Most of my editing is through SSH so I don't get to use the gui features much. The only time I use gvim is in windows, so it was pretty revolutionary for me.