VI Editor : Yank the entire file to clipboard (specific to OS X)

Question

Is there any way to copy all lines from a file to clipboard in VI editor. I have tried *yG, +yG, \"+yG and :%y+ from prev

Answer 1

vim --version | grep clipboard, if you see "-clipboard", you won't do that . Your vim doesn't support it. You need recompile the source code。

Compile

$./configure \ --enable-gui=auto --with-features=huge --with-x
$ make && sudo make install