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This question already has answers here : Closed 7 years ago . Possible Duplicate: vim: copy selection to OS X clipboard While I succeeded to map paste from clipboard ( nmap <leader>p "*p ), the same for yank ( nmap <leader>y "*y ) doesn't seem working. Actually, it yanks in Vim's clipboard. Any idea how to do it properly? I know of clipboard=unnamed but I might keep the old yank/paste vim's commands. EDIT : It seems there is some confusion about my needs. The command "*y works . So there is nothing wrong with the +clipboard thing in my Vim env. What does not work is the mapping stuff. I want

This question was probably answered before, but I tried searching and could not find the answer anywhere. I am somewhat new to Vim and I am having the following issue. Once I yank a line and paste it, i cannot paste it again. For example, say in Word environment you would copy a text, paste it and then you can paste it again further. But in Vim, once I have pasted it and then try pasting again (p), it pastes the text I pasted the yanked line over. So for example, I yanked the line "This line is yanked" onto "I don't want this line" and so "This line is yanked" takes place over "I don't want

Often I need to search large xml mode files for the next occurrence of the word under the cursor but preferably not if it's a tag the closing tag In the below example # is where the cursor is. Using * or # with iskeyword not including > or < will move between <Dealid> and </Dealid> . <Deali#d>4444</Dealid> ... 50 lines <Dealid>6666</Dealid> ... n lines <Dealid>5643</Dealid> I tried :set iskeyword+=< which worked fine for moving to the next match but it changed vey to include the < of the closing tag so moving to the start of 6666 , for eg, and typing vey will yank 6666< rather than 6666 .

I often find myself repeatedly yanking something after doing some kills and it becomes a process like: C-y C-y M-y C-y M-y M-y C-y M-y M-y M-y Each time I kill some text it pushes the first kill back in the kill ring so that I need to cycle through all the kills to return to text I want to yank. What I want to do is repeatedly yank the same text while killing text in-between yanks. Is this possible? This is a strange hack, but may help. The first time you use M-y you normally get an error (no previous yank). So the idea is that this first time you get the last yank instead of the last kill.

I'm a C# developer who has just recently decided to expand my knowledge of the tools available to me. The first tool I've decided to learn is Vi/Vim. Everything has been going well so far, but there are a couple of questions I can't seem to find the answer to: Lets say I wanted to yank a range of lines. I know there are many ways of doing so, but I would like to do it by line number. I figured it would be similar to how the substitute commands work, something like 81,91y . Is there a way to do this? I'm a little confused about the g command in normal mode. It seems to do a myriad of things and