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Q&A How to make vi-mode bindings in terminal copy to clipboard

I don't know if this is universal or specific to my setup (zsh, GNOME Terminal, Xorg), but using "+yy (double quote, plus, Y, Y) instead of just yy works for me. Note this is the same command used...

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#1: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2022-07-19T15:40:24Z (over 2 years ago)
I don't know if this is universal or specific to my setup (zsh, GNOME Terminal, Xorg), but using `"+yy` (double quote, plus, Y, Y) instead of just `yy` works for me.

Note this is the same command used within Vim itself to copy to the main clipboard instead of a Vim-internal register, so it makes sense for this to work in ZSH as well.