Saturday, December 18, 2010

Re: Take out current line and send to xclip how to ?

>
> if you want the text in your Vim buffer to remain unchanged. There may
> be a better way to do that that I'm not aware of though. See ":h filter"
> for info on the ! commands.
>

You can also write to arbitrary commands. This has the same effect as
a filter, but doesn't replace the original contents with the output of
the command. Use like so:

:w !xclip

This will write the entire file to xclip. Using

:.w !xclip

Will write the current line.

Note the space between 'w' and '!' - this is needed, otherwise a file
named xclip will be written instead of the selected region or file
being written to a pipe to xclip.

For more information, see ":h w_c"

Personally, though, if I want to yank something to the clipboard, I
use "+y or "*y .

HTH,
Matthew

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