How to copy a selection to the OS X clipboard

Question

I have an area selected in Vim. How can I copy it into the OS X clipboard?

(The OS X clipboard can be written to via a pipe to /usr/bin/pbcopy)

Answer 1

On macos 10.8, vim is compiled with -clipboard so to use "*y you'll need to recompile. Luckily brew install vim would compile a new version easily for you and it will be +clipboard.