how to copy codes in vi to clipboard

Question

I know how to copy in VI. but I failed to copy it into other application. That means I failed copy those into clipboard. How can I do this?

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Answer 1

The copy of vi is done within vi's own internal clipboard, as its descended from the unix command line where the windows style clipboard didnt exist. Later came the mouse pointer for command line which meant you could copy using that as a more like windows style, but if you want to copy from vi to windows clipboard, you need to use *yy and *p, not yy and p which are the internal clipboard within vi (which is also why yanking and pasting dont effect your windows clipboard)