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Vim has multiple "registers", which in modern parlance is multiple internal clipboards. By default, yank sends to an anonymous register, which is separate from the clipboard. However, you can make...
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matthewsnyder
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2023-07-20T02:27:50Z (over 1 year ago)
- Vim has multiple "registers", which in modern parlance is multiple internal clipboards.
By default, `y`ank sends to the "unnamed" register, which is separate from the clipboard. However, you can make it send to other registers. The registers `*` and `+` in particular are interesting, because they happen to be connected to the system clipboard that most people use.- So all you do is yank to a non-default register: `"*y` And you can paste from the same with `"*p`.
- You might want to make that behavior the default for `yy` - you can do so with `set clipboard=unnamed,unnamedplus`. On Linux with X, one of these is for the "normal" clipboard, the other is for the select-and-middle-click clipboard.
- See also:
- * https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Vim#Clipboard
- * https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Accessing_the_system_clipboard
- * https://stackoverflow.com/a/3961954/21703684
- Vim has multiple "registers", which in modern parlance is multiple internal clipboards.
- By default, `y`ank sends to an anonymous register, which is separate from the clipboard. However, you can make it send to other registers. The registers `*` and `+` in particular are interesting, because they happen to be connected to the system clipboard that most people use.
- So all you do is yank to a non-default register: `"*y` And you can paste from the same with `"*p`.
- You might want to make that behavior the default for `yy` - you can do so with `set clipboard=unnamed,unnamedplus`. On Linux with X, one of these is for the "normal" clipboard, the other is for the select-and-middle-click clipboard.
- See also:
- * https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Vim#Clipboard
- * https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Accessing_the_system_clipboard
- * https://stackoverflow.com/a/3961954/21703684
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matthewsnyder
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2023-07-20T02:27:13Z (over 1 year ago)
Vim has multiple "registers", which in modern parlance is multiple internal clipboards. By default, `y`ank sends to the "unnamed" register, which is separate from the clipboard. However, you can make it send to other registers. The registers `*` and `+` in particular are interesting, because they happen to be connected to the system clipboard that most people use. So all you do is yank to a non-default register: `"*y` And you can paste from the same with `"*p`. You might want to make that behavior the default for `yy` - you can do so with `set clipboard=unnamed,unnamedplus`. On Linux with X, one of these is for the "normal" clipboard, the other is for the select-and-middle-click clipboard. See also: * https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Vim#Clipboard * https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Accessing_the_system_clipboard * https://stackoverflow.com/a/3961954/21703684