Vim no longer employs, or to some extent it seems even interacts with the OS clipboard. At this point, the text is loaded into the vim clipboard not the Linux clipboard!), the mode drops back to its previous value (actually, this bit is sort of cool), and removes the highlighting (seriously?).ģ. Rather than automatically loading the highlighted text into the keyboard, one must hit the (Y)ank key. Related to #1, after highlighting any text, the app automatically switches to VISUAL mode, wherein one can no longer type in text.
This new behavior is like Windows, and it really sucks.Ģ. One of the really great things about vim is its ability to highlight one section of the screen while leaving the cursor elsewhere. The version of vim on the RPi systems (or maybe it is a Jessie thing: at this point only my Raspberry Pi hosts are running Jessie) is aggravating, though. I like its features, and it is available on all my Linux systems -also a lot. :g/pattern/y A append to the register A every line with pattern To copy all lines that have "pattern" to the clipboard you can: :let A :call FunctionName() (and then type Enter) To test any function that is on the clipboard you can (and then type Enter) To copy the last command to the clipboard: :let copy the last search to the clipboard: :let copy from the mark "a" until the mark "b" to the clipboard: :'a,'b y+ If you want to copy the whole buffer to the clipboard you can: :%y+ Tha will insert your clipboard content and preserve all indentation as it is on the clipboard. On insert mode you can simply Ctrl-r Ctrl-o +. To paste from the clipboard in normal mode you can: "+p To copy to the clipboard you have to either select your target, let's say a paragraph vip and then "+y, which means to the register + copy the selected portion or you can simply type in normal mode: "+yip, which means: to the register + copy inner paragraph. If it returns 1 you do have clipboard support To paste text in the clipboard - before the location of the cursor:įirst, check if your vim has clipboard support installed :echo has('clipboard') To paste text in the clipboard - after the location of the cursor: In the command mode, move the cursor to location from where text needs to be copied and type y$.To copy all text from the current location to the end of the line: In the command mode, move the cursor to location from where text needs to be copied and type yw.
To copy all text from the current location to the end of the current word: In the command mode, move the cursor to the first line that needs to be copied and type yG.To copy all lines from the current location to the end of the file: (likewise, any number of lines can be copied) In the command mode, move the cursor to the first line that needs to be copied and type 2yy or type 2Y.In the command mode, move the cursor to the line that needs to be copied and type yy or type Y.(use the following in the command mode of vi) I hope this helps.ĭetailed instructions to copy/paste lines of text in vi using yank and put These are 4 basic copy & paste conditions related to vim. If you want to copy paste contents from an external program into vim, first copy your text into system clipboard via Ctrl+ C, then in vim editor insert mode, click the mouse middle button (usually the wheel) or press Ctrl+ Shift+ V to paste. "+yy), it also gets copied to the system clipboard which you can retrieve from your external program like gedit editor, by using Ctrl+ V. Now, when you yank some text in the + register inside your vim editor (e.g. This time when you check you should find +xterm_clipborad. You can stick to non-gui vim by calling vim from the terminal, the same way you did before.
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If you find -xterm_clipboard, you have two options:ġ) Compile vim yourself, with the xterm_clipboard flag onĢ) Uninstall vim, install gvim (vim-gtk or vim-gnome) instead. The GUI version of vim always has clipboard support, however, if you like to use Vim from a terminal, you will have to check for X11-clipboard support.įrom the console, type: $ vim -version | grep xterm If you want to copy paste contents from vim to an external program, you need to access the system clipboard. :tabnew /path/to/second/file) and press p to paste it. If you want to copy paste contents across terminals, open the first file, yanking the text you want, then open your second file within vim (e.g. If you want to copy paste contents within the same file, use yank and paste.
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