How to copy a selection to the OS X clipboard

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I have an area selected in Vim  How can I copy it into the OS X clipboard    The OS X clipboard can be written to via a pipe to  usr bin pbcopy

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I am currently on OS X 10 9 and my efforts to compile vim with  xterm clipboard brought me nothing  So my current solution is to use MacVim in terminal mode with option set clipboard unnamed in my    vimrc file  Works perfect for me

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You can visually select text and type  w  pbcopy lt CR gt   Or you can include the below key mappings in your    vimrc file  They cut copy text in visual mode to the operating system s clipboard   vmap  lt C-x gt    pbcopy lt CR gt    vmap  lt C-c gt   w  pbcopy lt CR gt  lt CR gt     source  http   drydevelopment com blog vim-pbcopy-on-os-x

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Visually select the text and type   ggVG  tee  gt  pbcopy    Which I find nicer than   ggVG  w  pbcopy   Since it doesn t flash up a prompt   Press ENTER or type command to continue

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If the clipboard is enabled  you can copy a selected region to the clipboard by hitting   y  To see if it is enabled  run vim --version and look for  clipboard or -clipboard   For example  it s not enabled by default on my 10 5 6 box     which vim  usr bin vim   vim --version VIM - Vi IMproved 7 2  2008 Aug 9  compiled Nov 11 2008 17 20 43  Included patches  1-22 Compiled by  www b77 apple com Normal version without GUI   Features included     or not  -       -clientserver -clipboard  cmdline compl  cmdline hist  cmdline info  comments       If it had been compiled with  clipboard  I d be able to use the    register to access the system clipboard   I downloaded the 7 2 source and compiled it  easy as tar xjf vim-7 2 tar bz  amp  amp  cd vim72  amp  amp    configure  amp  amp  make  amp  amp  sudo make install   and the clipboard was enabled     which vim  usr local bin vim   vim --version VIM - Vi IMproved 7 2  2008 Aug 9  compiled Mar 24 2009 17 31 52  Compiled by rampion Myrrhy local Normal version with GTK2 GUI   Features included     or not  -        clientserver  clipboard  cmdline compl  cmdline hist  cmdline info  comments       However  even after compiling  I couldn t copy to the clipboard when running vim in Terminal app  only in X11 app

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For MacVim and Windows Gvim  simply add the following to your    vimrc   set clipboard unnamed   Now all operations such as yy  D  and P work with the clipboard  No need to prefix them with    or

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double-quote asterisk      before any yank command will yank the results into the copy buffer   That works for Windows and Linux too

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For Mac - Holding option key followed by ctrl V while selecting the text did the trick

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on mac when anything else seems to work - select with mouse  right click choose copy  uff

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Use Homebrew s vim  brew install vim  Mac  as of 10 10 3 Yosemite  comes pre-installed with a system vim that does not have the clipboard flag enabled   You can either compile vim for yourself and enable that flag  or simply use Homebrew s vim which is setup properly   To see this for yourself  check out the stock system vim with  usr bin vim --version  You ll see something like      usr bin vim --version  VIM - Vi IMproved 7 3  2010 Aug 15  compiled Nov  5 2014 21 00 28  Compiled by root apple com Normal version without GUI   Features included     or not  -       -clientserver -clipboard  cmdline compl       Note the -clipboard  With homebrew s vim you instead get     usr local bin vim --version  VIM - Vi IMproved 7 4  2013 Aug 10  compiled May 10 2015 14 04 42  MacOS X  unix  version Included patches  1-712 Compiled by Homebrew Huge version without GUI   Features included     or not  -        clipboard       Note the  clipboard

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Command-c works for me in both MacVim and in the terminal

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Depending on which version of Vim I use  I m able to use the   register to access the clipboard    Mac OS X clipboard sharing  may have some ideas that work for you as well

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If your Vim is not compiled with clipboards  you wish to copy selected text instead of entire lines  you do not want to install MacVim or other GUI  the simplest solution is to add this line to your  vimrc   map  lt C-c gt  y e   clipsongzboard lt CR gt P w  pbcopy lt CR gt  lt CR gt  bdelete  lt CR gt    To use it  simply visually select the text you want to copy  and then Control-C  If you want a full explanation of this line read  How to Copy to clipboard on vim

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Shift cmd c     set copy mode  Drag mouse   select text  cmd c to copy selected text  Cmd v to paste

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I used   map  lt C-x gt    pbcopy lt CR gt  vmap  lt C-c gt   w  pbcopy lt CR gt  lt CR gt    It worked really well

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In my case I just had to do     set mouse v   please visit the original solution on superuser com

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My main problem was the default OSX version of Vim  Installing it via homebrew added  clipboard to the build   You can check with   vim --version   to see if it says -clipboard or  clipboard

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Fakeclip implements the   and   buffers if they aren t natively supported

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command-C  This at least works for the vim launched from within Terminal app for text selected with mouse

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If you are on MacOS X     brew install vim   vim --version VIM - Vi IMproved 7 4         Then  add to your  vimrc   set clipboard unnamed   Now you just need to be in vim and do   y  to have all the content copied to your clipboard

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What worked for me in my  vimrc  set clipboard unnamed if has  unnamedplus     X11 support     set clipboard  unnamedplus endif

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For Ubuntu users  the package you want to retrieve for using the clipboard is vim-full  The other packages  vim-tiny  vim  do not include the clipboard feature

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Copying to clipboard using register     or      is not working   Reason  Your particular version of vim was compiled without clipboard support Type vim --verion on console and you will see -xterm clipboard  Installing vim with gui packages solves this issue  On ubuntu you can do this by typing on shell   sudo apt-get install vim-gui-common  Now again do vim --version on console  Most probably  you would be seeing  xterm clipboard now    So  now you can copy anything to clipboard using register    like   yy to copy current line to clipboard

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If you are using MacPorts you can upgrade your VIM to include clipboard support via   port install vim  x  x11   Now you use the    register to yank your text directly to your Mac clipboard   Works like a charm

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On macos 10 8  vim is compiled with -clipboard so to use   y you ll need to recompile  Luckily brew install vim would compile a new version easily for you and it will be  clipboard

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if you have the  clipboard option on your Vim installation  you can check with  version  and you are in visual mode you can do   y This will yank the selection to the buffer   that is the clipboard   I have added the following maps to my vimrc and it works fine    vmap  lt leader gt y   y   With this I can do leader key follow by y to copy to the clipboard in visual mode   nmap  lt leader gt p   p   With this I can do leader key follow by p to paste from the clipboard on normal mode    PD   On Ubuntu I had to install vim-gtk to get the  clipboard option

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I meet the same issue  after install macvim still not working  finally I found a way to solve   Try to uninstall all vim first   brew uninstall macvim  brew uninstall --force vim  and reinstall macvim  brew install macvim --with-override-system-vim  Then you can use   y or   y  don t have to set clipboard unnamed

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You can use MacVim when you re on a Mac to easily access the clipboard using the standard OS keys   It s also fully backward compatible with normal Vim  so I don t even have to have a separate  vimrc

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