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In the ~/.vimrc the clipboard has been enabled:
set clipboard=unnamed
But after hitting v for Visual
and then hitting y (yank) then escape there is no contents in the clipboard.
https://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/
What else needs to be done?
Using clipboard=unnamed requires that your copy of Vim has system clipboard support built in. You can check this with the command:
echo has('clipboard')
Or simply by inspecting the output of:
:version
has(clipboard) returns 0 ;( So looks like I should reinstall vim. Thx for the heads up.
Feb 20 '18 at 23:15
gnome-vim which returns 1 for has('clipboard') and saw 'yanked 7 lines` but still nothing in clipboard.
Feb 20 '18 at 23:25
clipboard=unnamed will mean yanked text goes into the "PRIMARY selection". Possibly you want clipboard=unnamedplus instead?
clipboard=unnamedplus: also does not work. I am running this in docker: and it appears the problem were a general one with the clipboard sharing with a macos host: stackoverflow.com/questions/41703070/…
Feb 20 '18 at 23:51
Escbeforey? Because that wil cancel the visual mode selection.yankedmessage.