Copy to Primary Selection in VIM

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Copy to Primary Selection in VIM

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I tried "+y and "*y but both doesn't seem to copy into the primary selection.

Note that vim --version returns -clipboard. Not sure what this means.

Also note that I'm running VIM in a terminal.

So how do I copy text into the Primary Selection in VIM?

Goal is to copy text from VIM into Google Chrome.

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You need a version of vim that has +clipboard in its version. Install the vim-gnome package and you should be fine. (And you don't have to use gvim to use the clipboard, it still works when running vim in a terminal.)

Note
In more recent versions, the actual package name seems to be vim-gtk and vim-gtk3 respectively (vim-gnome is a dummy package).

[#38519] Wednesday, January 4, 2023, 1 Year [reply] [flag answer]

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