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

You can do it; just pipe to xclip.

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:'<,'>w !xclip

from here: in vim with xclip, yank to clipboard

Answer 2

I would open the file in the browser using a file URL:

file:///home/dave/some-file

Not super elegant but it works.

Answer 3

If you have run configure as explained by @DrAl but you still can't get the GUI compiled in and you see this in the output of your ./configure

checking for X... (cached) no

Then you may have to delete the cache file that configure created.

find . -name config.cache -delete

Then re-run configure and make and check src/vim --version again - it should show that gui is included now.

Answer 4

I really enjoy this set of shortcuts:

" Add shortcut for clipboard registers
noremap <leader>p "*p
noremap <leader>y "+y
noremap <leader>d "+d

It is just an easier way then type "* and "+ every time.

Answer 5

You can also add shortcuts to your vimrc

# Copy and paste
vmap <C-c> "+yi
vmap <C-x> "+c
vmap <C-v> c<ESC>"+p
imap <C-v> <ESC>"+pa

It will allow you to Copy by Ctrl + C and Paste by Ctrl + V

Answer 6

Install the package vim-gnome instead of vim. It comes with clipboard enabled.