Copy all the lines to clipboard

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Is there any way to copy all lines from open file to clipboard in VI editor  I tried yG but it s not using clipboard to store those lines    So is it possible

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I have created a function to perform this action, place it on your ~/.vimrc.

fun! CopyBufferToClipboard()
    %y+
endfun
nnoremap <Leader>y :call CopyBufferToClipboard()<CR>
command! -nargs=0 CopyFile :call CopyBufferToClipboard()

OBS: If you are using neovim you also need some clipboard manager like xclip. for more information type in neovim :h checkhealth

It is also important to mention that not always a simple y will copy to the clipboard, in order to make every copy feed + wich is "Clipboard Register" try to set: :set clipboard=unnamed,unnamedplus. For mor information see: :h unnamed.

Here more information on vim wikia.

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If you re using Vim in visual mode  the standard cut and paste keys also apply  at least with Windows    CTRLA means  Mark the entire file  CTRLC means  Copy the selection  ESC means  De-select  so your next key press doesn t replace the entire file  -    Under Ubuntu terminal  Gnome  at least  the standard copy also works  CTRLSHIFTC  although there doesn t appear to be a standard keyboard shortcut for select all  other than ALTE followed by A

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You should yank the text to the   or   registers   gg  yG  Explanation     gg to get the cursor to the first character of the file   y to start a yank command to the register   from the first line  until    G to go the end of the file

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you can press gg to locate your curser to the start of the file then press yG to copy all the content from the start to end G located  to buffer good luck

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in reply to  rshdev  and to avoid having to recompile vim with  xterm clipboard per  nelstrom in comments on OP   there s a program called xclip that works like putclip on Ubuntu 11      xclip -sel clip u   it s not installed by default   to install  use   sudo apt-get install xclip

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Use     y   to yank all lines   Explanation      to refer the next command to work on all the lines y to yank those lines   to copy to the system clipboard   NB  In Windows    and   are equivalent see this answer

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I tried a few of the commands that people have mentioned above  None worked  Then I got hold of the simplest of them all     Step 1  vi  lt filename gt  Step 2  Right click on the title bar of the Putty window Step 3  Select  Clear scrollback   to avoid copying the rest of your SSH session  Step 4  Right click again and select  Copy all to clipboard

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On Ubuntu 12  you might try to install the vim-gnome package   sudo apt-get install vim-gnome   I tried it  because vim --version told me that it would have the flag xterm clipboard disabled  indicated by -    which is needed in order to use the clipboard functionality   -  installing the vim-gnome package on Ubuntu 12 also installed a console based version of vim  that has this option enabled  indicated by a   before the xterm clipboard flag   On Arch Linux  you may install vim-clipboard for the same reason   If you run neovim then you should install xclip  as explained by help clipboard-tool

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You can use a shortcur  like this one   noremap  lt F6 gt    y  lt CR gt    It means  when you push F6 in normald mode  it will copy the whole file  and add it to the clipboard  Or you just can type in normal mode   y  and then push Enter

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You can use  cat  command to open file and use mouse to copy

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I know ten years on this should be settled but the first two answers did not work for me so I kept digging  On a Redhat  remote server  - Windows 10  local machine   if you cannot select the whole thing with a mouse  you are stuck because the usual copies do not work between the remote and the local machine clipboards   So  to copy on the remote Linux and to paste on the local Windows  specify the primary buffer with the   and do a nice double yank  Use gg    yy

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There wasn t a concept of  clipboard  in Bill Joy s vi so I don t think there is a built-in way to do it   gVim s automatic copy-anything-highlighted-to-the-clipboard feature is easiest or use an external program via     For Cygwin s vim I use      putclip u   Maybe Ubuntu has a CLI app like putclip

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Another easy way to copy the entire file if you re having problems using VI  is just by typing  cat filename    It will echo the file to screen and then you can just scroll up and down and copy paste

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gVim    set go a   ggVG  See  help go-a    a  Autoselect   If present  then whenever VISUAL mode is started   or the Visual area extended  Vim tries to become the owner of  the windowing system s global selection   This means that the  Visually highlighted text is available for pasting into other  applications as well as into Vim itself   When the Visual mode  ends  possibly due to an operation on the text  or when an  application wants to paste the selection  the highlighted text  is automatically yanked into the    selection register   Thus the selection is still available for pasting into other  applications after the VISUAL mode has ended       If not present  then Vim won t become the owner of the  windowing system s global selection unless explicitly told to  by a yank or delete operation for the    register   The same applies to the modeless selection

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Click the left mouse button  drag across the section you want to copy and release  The code automatically gets copied to clipboard

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I couldn t copy files using the answers above but I have putty and I found a workaround on Quora     Change settings of your PuTTY session  go to logging and change it to  printable characters   Set the log file Do a cat of the respective file Go to the file you set in step  1 and you will have your content in the log file    Note  it copies all the printed characters of that session to the log file  so it will get big eventually  In that case  delete the log file and cat the target file so you get that particular file s content copied on your machine

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If your fingers default to CTRL-A CTRL-C  then try the mappings from  VIMRUNTIME mswin vim     CTRL-C and CTRL-Insert are Copy vnoremap  lt C-C gt    y    CTRL-A is Select all noremap  lt C-A gt  gggH lt C-O gt G inoremap  lt C-A gt   lt C-O gt gg lt C-O gt gH lt C-O gt G cnoremap  lt C-A gt   lt C-C gt gggH lt C-O gt G onoremap  lt C-A gt   lt C-C gt gggH lt C-O gt G snoremap  lt C-A gt   lt C-C gt gggH lt C-O gt G xnoremap  lt C-A gt   lt C-C gt ggVG   I have them mapped to  lt Leader gt  lt C-a gt  and  lt Leader gt  lt C-c gt

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on Mac   copy selected part  visually select text type v or V in normal mode  and type  w  pbcopy copy the whole file   w  pbcopy past from the clipboard  r  pbpaste

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y a Yanks all the content into vim s buffer  Pressing p in command mode will paste the yanked content after the line that your cursor is currently standing at

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Here s a map command to select all to the clipboard using CTRL a       select all with control-a   nnoremap  lt C-a gt  ggmqvG  y q   Add it to your  vimrc and you re good to go

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I have added the following line to my  vimrc  nnoremap  lt F5 gt    y  lt CR gt    This allows me to copy all text in Vim to the clipboard by pressing F5  in command mode

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Do copy the whole file inside the vim or its tabs   y G    then move to a tab and paste by   p   and to cut the whole file use  d G

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Well  all of these approaches are interesting  however as lazy programmer I use yank all line by using combination of number   y  for example you have source code file with total of 78 lines  you can do as below    gg to get cursor at first line  insert 78   y  --  it yanks 78 lines below your cursor and current line

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This is what I do to yank the whole file   ggVGy

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The clipboard is buffer    To copy to clipboard  do   y and  movement    So  gg  yG will copy the whole file   Similarly  to paste from clipboard    p

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