Sunday, October 16, 2016

Vim clipboard copy paste workaround

Vim clipboard copy paste workaround


I love Vim. But the somewhat difficult to handle system clipboard integration just doesnt seem to fit in with me. I made a recompile to get +xterm-clipbard option, but the whole Ctrl-C Ctrl-V thing was missig. And I didnt want to recompile everytime. Got a nice workaround using xclip :) here [ http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/In_line_copy_and_paste_to_system_clipboard ]
Just to make a note / backup, heres what you have to do. Just put that into your .vimrc

" Copy paste from clipboard
vmap y: call system("xclip -i -selection clipboard", getreg("""))
nmap :call setreg(""",system("xclip -o -selection clipboard"))p
Youre good to go.

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