How to copy selected lines to clipboard in vim

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How to copy selected lines to clipboard in vim  I know how to do it for all text files  but I want to do in for selected lines  Thanks

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I have added the following line to my  vimrc  vnoremap  lt F5 gt    y lt CR gt    This allows you to copy the selected text to the clipboard by pressing F5  You must be in visual mode for this to work

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First check if your vim installation has clipboard support  vim --version  If clipboard support is installed you will see   clipboard  X11  xterm clipboard  If clipboard support is not installed you will see  -clipboard -X11 -xterm clipboard  To install clipboard support  apt-get install vim-gnome  Once you have verified that clipboard support is installed do the following   Position your cursor to the first line you want to copy  Press Shiftv to enter visual mode  Press   to select multiple lines Press  quot  y to copy the selected text to system clipboard  Now you can copy the selected text to browser  text editor etc  Press  quot  p if you want to copy system clipboard text to vim   Above steps might get tedious if you have to repeatedly copy from vim to system clipboard and vice versa  You can create vim shortcuts so that when you press Ctrlc selected text will be copied to system clipboard  And when you press Ctrlp system clipboard text is copied to vim  To create shortcuts    Open  vimrc file and add following text at the end of file   nnoremap  lt C-c gt   quot  y  vnoremap  lt C-c gt   quot  y  nnoremap  lt C-p gt   quot  p  vnoremap  lt C-p gt   quot  p   Save and reload your  vimrc to apply the new changes   Position your cursor to the first line you want to copy   Press Shiftv to enter visual mode   Press   to select multiple lines  Press Ctrlc to copy the selected text to system clipboard   Now you can copy the selected text to browser  text editor etc   Press Ctrlp if you want to copy system clipboard text to vim    Note  This is for ubuntu systems

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If you are using vim in MAC OSX  unfortunately it comes with older verion  and not complied with clipboard options  Luckily  homebrew can easily solve this problem   install vim   brew install vim --with-lua --with-override-system-vim   install gui verion of vim   brew install macvim --with-lua --with-override-system-vim   restart the terminal to take effect   append the following line to    vimrc  set clipboard unnamed   now you can copy the line in vim withyy and paste it system-wide

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Install  xclip  if you haven t     sudo apt-get install xclip  Xclip puts the data into the  selection highlighted  clipboard that you middle-click to paste as opposed to  ctrl v   While in vim use ex commands   7w  xclip   or  1 7w  xclip   or   w  xclip   Then just middle-click to paste into any other application

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SHIFTV puts you in select lines mode  Then   y yanks the currently selected lines to the   register which is the clipboard  There are quite a few different registers  for different purposes  See the section on selection and drop registers for details on the differences between   and   registers on Windows and Linux

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If you re on Linux and are using a VIm version 7 3 74 or higher  the version that gets installed in Ubuntu 11 10 onwards satisfies this   you can do  set clipboard unnamedplus  which will place yanked text into the global clipboard  and allow you to paste from the global clipboard  without having to use any special registers  Unlike ldigas s solution  this will also work on non-gui versions of VIm

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For GVIM  hit v to go into visual mode  select text and hit Ctrl Insert to copy selection into global clipboard    From the menu you can see that the shortcut key is   y i e  hold Shift key  then press    then   and then release Shift and press y  cumbersome in comparison to Shift Insert

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set guioptions  a   will      uhmm  in short  whenever you select yank something put it in the clipboard as well  not Vim s  but the global keyboard of the window system   That way you don t have to think about yanking things into a special register

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Add the following code into your  vimrc   if has  clipboard       if has  unnamedplus      When possible use   register for copy-paste         set clipboard unnamed unnamedplus     else           On mac and Windows  use   register for copy-paste         set clipboard unnamed     endif endif

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If vim is compiled with clipboard support  then you can use   y meaning  yank visually selected text into register        is for clipboard   If there is no clipboard support  I think only other way is to use Ctrl Insert after visually selecting the text in vim

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