copy from vim to clipboard code example
Example 1: copy from vim to clipboard
Use "+ to copy to the system clipboard
i.e. "+y instead of y
Likewise you can paste from "+ to get text from the system clipboard
i.e. "+p instead of p
Example 2: vim wsl copy to windows system clipboard
# if you want to paste from windows clipboard into vim
# while in Insert Mode press Shift+Ins and confirm paste
# to make vim yank to windows clipboard
# put the following in your .vimrc
# *you don't need to yank to a specific register
" WSL yank support
let s:clip = '/mnt/c/Windows/System32/clip.exe' " change this path according to your mount point
if executable(s:clip)
augroup WSLYank
autocmd!
autocmd TextYankPost * if v:event.operator ==# 'y' | call system(s:clip, @0) | endif
augroup END
endif
Example 3: asciidoc copy to clipboard
= My document
Author
:nocopyblocks: