Timeline for How can I copy text to the system clipboard from Vim?
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| Feb 12 at 1:38 | comment | added | Nathan majicvr.com |
@Shahbaz Oh thanks, you can use it to fix typos in macros, so clever. I've just been using it to juggle a few more copy and pastes at once. Very handy, thanks. :reg lets you see all the macros, also
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| May 19, 2023 at 17:05 | comment | added | Nathan majicvr.com | Marvelously thorough. Would upvote ten times if I could | |
| Apr 8, 2022 at 17:25 | comment | added | questionto42 |
@LuísdeSousa right, on Ubuntu, I also do not have any +clipboard in the normal vi: echo has('clipboard') = 0 which is said in the answer: sudo apt vim-gtk3 and a restart. Then you will have echo has('clipboard') = 1.
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| S Oct 14, 2020 at 15:18 | history | suggested | DZet | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
vim-gtk and vim-gnome are both labeled as outdated in favour of vim-gtk3
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| Jan 8, 2020 at 15:12 | comment | added | Luís de Sousa |
The instructions here for X11 only function if vim is compiled with the +clipboard option, which is many distros (e.g. Debian) is not the case.
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| Jan 2, 2020 at 21:34 | comment | added | 71GA |
Copy & paste as described in the question is meant for desktop. It is true that installing package gvim alongside vim gives you clipboard functionalities. but in file browsers you are then offered two text editors to open files! And this looks ugly. This is why it is better to install only packages vim and vim-gui-common. Later one provides the clipboard functionalities without the need for installing gvim. This is on Linux Debian 10.
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| Oct 9, 2019 at 3:46 | comment | added | dansch |
Better mnemonic: + ( like a cross ) is how it crosses into your operating system
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| S Oct 2, 2019 at 18:41 | history | suggested | Schlueter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 21, 2019 at 1:17 | comment | added | pixelearth | since the standard MacOS vim doesn't support + / * registers you can alias your vim to MacVim's vim bin here (has same support as the gui) /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/bin/vim | |
| Apr 9, 2019 at 8:58 | comment | added | buzaku | How could I enable copy paste functionality from a Neovim code editor to a python interpreter sheet opened in a split window (I am using Byobu)? I am using Neovim as my code editor on the web-browser based SSH shell on Google Compute Engine | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 9:18 | comment | added | elquimista |
@hildred for me (on macOS Mojave), I had to use -XY, -Y alone was not enough.
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| Jul 26, 2018 at 20:12 | comment | added | Martin Tournoij | I'm not entirely sure if I follow what you're trying to do @blamb, or what exactly isn't working. I assumed you're already using the mouse by the way you phrased the question, but clearly I misunderstood that. I blame the Elvis juice ;-) I think it might be best if you post a new question which goes in to a bit more detail. | |
| Jul 26, 2018 at 19:44 | comment | added | blamb |
if you think that will work as an alternative thats one thing, but i was trying to copy text, without mouse, but using visual block, then press a key on my keyboard (a key + being easier to debug key combos, e.g. "*yy) then i should be able to paste using normal means into another application. Im open for anything, as long as i can get one panes worth of data into the clipboard (using gnu screen to make matters more difficult)
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| Jul 26, 2018 at 19:01 | comment | added | Martin Tournoij |
I think you're looking for the mouse setting @blamb? Try :set mouse=a. Also see :help 'mouse' and :help mouse-using.
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| Jul 26, 2018 at 18:50 | comment | added | blamb |
as thorough as this looks, i cant figure out how to copy from vim, on a split screen (horizontal) so i can only copy from one screen, using visual block. I tried adding the noremaps and the set clipboard=unpamedplus but cant figure out how to use it. am i supposed to use visual block, press the + key? Can you elaborate on how to use this?
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| Jun 21, 2018 at 11:39 | history | edited | Martin Tournoij | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 27, 2017 at 21:57 | history | edited | Martin Tournoij | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 30, 2017 at 23:19 | history | edited | Martin Tournoij | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:51 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://vi.stackexchange.com/ with https://vi.stackexchange.com/
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| Feb 26, 2017 at 21:03 | comment | added | Shahbaz |
@evilsoup, good to know! I usually use y, u, i, o, p (for no reason), but thought to use more meaningful letters for the sake of the comment. Clearly not a good choice.
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| Feb 26, 2017 at 10:17 | comment | added | evilsoup | @shahbaz -- probably better to use the letter registers for such a purpose, since the numbered ones get changed whenever text is deleted. | |
| Feb 5, 2017 at 17:16 | comment | added | BallpointBen | Just a note: OS X has two separate clipboards. One is accessed using Cmd-C and Cmd-V and the other using the emacs keybindings Ctrl-K and Ctrl-Y. | |
| Feb 3, 2017 at 18:06 | comment | added | Shahbaz |
A very interesting side effect of learning this (a few years ago) for me has been the realization that " can select many named registers. "+ is not magic, it's just register +. So for example, if you want to copy three things at the same time and paste each of them one by one, you can "1y, "2y and "3y and later "1p, "2p and "3p. This is really powerful and non-existent in almost any other editor. Another interesting usage is to look at stored macros. For example, if you record with qq, but you realize you need to fix it, you can: in a temp line "qp, fix it, and "qd.
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| Jan 5, 2017 at 20:46 | history | edited | Martin Tournoij | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Reverse order of sections so that "above tip" makes sense.
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| Mar 15, 2016 at 10:56 | history | edited | muru | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
why didn't I see that before? O.o
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| S Mar 15, 2016 at 10:12 | history | edited | Martin Tournoij | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fix fedora package name - otherwise one gets 'No package vim-x11 available'; -Y implicates -X; echo is necessary otherwise I get 'not an editor command'
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| S Mar 15, 2016 at 10:12 | history | suggested | maxschlepzig | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fix fedora package name - otherwise one gets 'No package vim-x11 available'; -Y implicates -X; echo is necessary otherwise I get 'not an editor command'
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| Mar 12, 2016 at 2:59 | history | edited | muru | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 11, 2016 at 18:56 | history | edited | Martin Tournoij | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Update for Neovim
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| S Jan 20, 2016 at 2:01 | history | suggested | Mateusz Piotrowski | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 23, 2015 at 18:53 | comment | added | Arthur F |
For some international keyboards, you may need to press "<Space> to get a ". So in those case you would have to press "<Space>+y or "<Space>*y to copy.
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| May 26, 2015 at 8:49 | history | edited | Martin Tournoij | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Feb 3, 2015 at 19:04 | history | edited | Martin Tournoij | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
moving the os x / windows mention further up
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| S Feb 3, 2015 at 19:04 | history | suggested | alxndr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
moving the os x / windows mention further up
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| Feb 3, 2015 at 18:40 | history | edited | Martin Tournoij | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 3, 2015 at 18:34 | history | answered | Martin Tournoij | CC BY-SA 3.0 |