hellobird
2019. 5. 4. 02:28
How to Copy to System Clipboard from Vim
In this tutorial, I used Cygwin on Windows 10 and Bash on Windows 10 to copy text from vim to the system clipboard for pasting.
- Check if we have
+clipboard on our version of vim - If you’re using bash on Windows or Ubuntu, and vim does not have
+clipboard, sudo apt-get install vim-gnome -y +clipboard gets installedvim file- Type:
:%y+ to copy all lines - Right click and paste, and you’ll see the lines you copied from
vim
Check if we have +clipboard on our version of vim.
vim --version

Instead of -clipboard, we want +clipboard.
If you’re using bash or Ubuntu, and vim does not have +clipboard already:
sudo apt-get install vim-gnome -y
+clipboard gets installed.
vim --version

Open the file with vim and copy its contents to the clipboard.
vim file
Type:
:%y+
to yank all lines.


Now, you can right click and paste into a text editor.
I pasted the clipboard to an empty document in Sublime!
