Cut to the system clipboard from Vim on Ubuntu

Question

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 Beta and Vim that has come with it. I am trying to use Vim to copy the content of a text file to Chrome browser. I have tried +, *

Answer 1

The output from vim --version should show something like this:

Huge version with GTK2-GNOME GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):

and further down in the output you should see stuff like +Xll:

+vreplace +wildignore +wildmenu +windows +writebackup +X11 -xfontset +xim 
+xsmp_interact +xterm_clipboard -xterm_save 

That means your console vim can copy/paste to/from the X11 clipboard.

Try apt-get install vim-gtk