Copy to system clipboard instead of vim buffer
You first need to see if vim is compiled with clipboard support, run vim --version | grep clip
and see if there is a +
or -
in front of clipboard
and xterm-clipboard
.
If it has clipboard support, copying from and pasting into the *
or +
registers should use the system/X11 clipboards, so "*yy
would copy a line and "*p
would paste it.
In Ubuntu 10.10 you can install vim-gnome to have clipboard support compiled in.
You can have Vim use the clipboard instead of the default register for yanking, putting, etc., by adding this command to your ~/.vimrc:
set clipboard+=unnamed
See
:help clipboard
:help 'clipboard'
have a try :
"+y and "+p
this works for me, on Ubuntu.