Copying text outside of Vim with set mouse a enabled

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After enabling set mouse a  text copied inside of Vim will not paste outside of Vim  Does anybody know of a way to fix this   Here  selecting text with the mouse turns on visual mode and disables the Copy option in the popup menu

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I accidently explained how to switch off set mouse a  when I reread the question and found out that the OP did not want to switch it off in the first place  Anyway for anyone searching how to switch off the mouse  set mouse   centrally  I leave a reference to my answer here  https   unix stackexchange com a 506723 194822

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Use       y after making a visual selection  You shouldn   t be using the terminal   s copy command anyway  because that copies what the terminal sees instead of the actual content  Here is what this does        tells Vim to use the register named   for the next delete  yank or put  The register named   is a special register  it is the X11 clipboard register   On other systems  you would use   instead  I think  see  help clipboard and  help x11-selection  y is the yank command  which tells Vim to put the selection in the register named previously    You could map it like this    vmap  lt C-C gt    y   And then highlight something with the mouse and press Control-C to copy it   This feature only works when Vim has been compiled with the  xterm clipboard option  Run vim --version to find out if it has

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In Ubuntu  it is possible to use the X-Term copy  amp  paste bindings inside VIM  Ctrl-Shift-C  amp  Ctrl-Shift-V  on text that has been hilighted using the Shift key

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Another OSX-Mac option is to uncheck View- gt Allow Mouse Reporting  or press  -R to toggle it    This allows you to toggle between mouse interaction and mouse selecting  which might be useful when selecting and copy pasting a few bits because you don t have to hold a modifier key to do it  Note for Multiline with line numbers  I usually have line numbers enabled so this will also copy the line numbers if you select multiple lines  If you want to copy multiple lines without the line numbers disable the numbers with  set nonu and then you can  set nu to re-enable them after you re done copying

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If you are using  Putty session  then it automatically copies selection  If we have used  set mouse a  option in vim  selecting using Shift Mouse drag selects the text automatically  Need to check in X-term

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Press shift while selecting with the mouse  This will make mouse selection behave as if mouse a was not enabled   Note  this trick also applies to  middle button paste   if you want to paste in vim text that was selected outside  press shift while clicking the middle button  Just make sure that insert mode is activated when you do that  you may also want to  set paste to avoid unexpected effects    OS X  mac   hold alt option while selecting  source

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On OSX use fn instead of shift

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em    Keep pressing Shift and  then click the right mouse button

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Add set clipboard unnamed to your  vimrc  So it will use the clipboard register     instead of the unnamed register for all yank  delete  change and put operations  note it does not only affect the mouse   The behavior of register     depends on your platform and how your vim has been compiled  or if you use neovim   If it does not work  you can try with set clipboard unnamedplus  but this option only makes sense on X11 systems  and gvim therefore

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In ESC mode  when set mouse a  select the text using mouse  This would enable the visual mode in vim  Then you can press  y  to yank the selected text and  p  to paste it wherever you want  This happens only within vim

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Compilation settings that vim was compiled with  are part of the issue  vim --version shows these   In OSX  the default vim has -clipboard  But you need  clipboard  On osx you can and apparently generally should  use macvim  You can do brew cask install macvim  That one has  clipboard   Them you ll have two vims      ls -l  usr bin vim    lt --- default vim -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1745984 15 Jul  2017  usr bin vim     ls -l  usr local bin vim    lt -- macvim  installed recently via that mentioned brew line   lrwxr-xr-x  1 apple  admin  42 16 May 23 32  usr local bin vim - gt   Applications MacVim app Contents bin mvim       running vim will run macvim  cos  usr local bin should be before  usr bin in the path  though you can check with which vim   running vim to run macvim   is fine but you may want to map vi to macvim  cos otherwise running vi stays at the default vim   You can rewrite or delete with rm  and recreate the vi sym link  with ln  And to do that without an  operation not permitted  error  you have to  temporarily  disable SIL  https   apple stackexchange com questions 208478 how-do-i-disable-system-integrity-protection-sip-aka-rootless-on-macos-os-x     macvim has  clipboard as shown by vim --version   Here is a working    vim vimrc with just the required lines    set mouse a  map  lt leader gt c   y  map  lt leader gt v   p   The default leader key is backslash      I read a suggestion that one should use the leader key    certainly control has many keys already in use  so the suggestion was to not use control  I don t know if that applies to command key too  but anyhow      With that mentioned mapping    c will do   y which will copy from the register known as    to the clipboard   And  v will paste from the register known as     So that s a copy paste that works between windows   Another OS may require    rather than

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You can use  set mouse amp  in the vim command line to enable copy paste of text selected using the mouse  You can then simply use the middle mouse button or shiftinsert to paste it

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Holding shift while copying and pasting with selection worked for me

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Instead of set mouse a use set mouse r in  vimrc

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