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

My main problem was the default OSX version of Vim. Installing it via homebrew added +clipboard to the build.

You can check with:

vim --version

to see if it says -clipboard or +clipboard.