How can I save a text block in visual mode to a file in Vim?

Question

The title is very descriptive. Just in case, I will give an example:

START BLOCK1
something
END BLOCK1

START BLOCK2
something
somenthing...
END BLOCK2
         


        

Answer 1

Similar to @songz's solution, I prefer do it like this using ":new"

vmap  y:new ~/.vimbufVGp:x:!pbcopy < ~/.vimbuf