(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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