To enable Vim to interact with the system clipboard, follow these steps:
- Check Clipboard Support:
- In Vim, enter
:version
and look for+clipboard
or+xterm_clipboard
. If present, your Vim supports clipboard operations.
- In Vim, enter
- Yank (Copy) to System Clipboard:
- In normal mode, use
"+y
after selecting text in visual mode to copy to the system clipboard.
- In normal mode, use
- Paste from System Clipboard:
- In normal mode, use
"+p
to paste clipboard contents into Vim.
- In normal mode, use
- Configure Vim to Use System Clipboard by Default:
- Add
set clipboard=unnamedplus
to your.vimrc
file to make all yank, delete, change, and put operations use the system clipboard by default.
- Add
If your Vim lacks clipboard support, consider installing a version compiled with clipboard features or use external tools like xclip
or xsel
for clipboard operations