Re: Can I copy/yank into and out of vim?

On 06/03/23, Rory Campbell-Lange (rory@campbell-lange.net) wrote:
> On 04/03/23, Tony Mechelynck (antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com) wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 3:32 AM Angel M Alganza <ama@ugr.es> wrote:
>
> > The reason for this dfference in behaviour is that xterm doesn't use
> > the X11 clipboard (register + in Vim) but only the X11 selection
> > (register * in Vim). In almost every other GUI, including gvim, you
> > can use Edit→Cut, Edit→Copy and Edit→Paste to pass text from one
> > program to another via the clipboard, but in xterm you need to have
> > some text selected (and, in Vim, written to "*) then the middle mouse
> > button pastes into xterm; conversely, IIUC anything selected in xterm
> > will appear in Vim's * register and can be pasted with "*p or with
> > <MiddleMouse>.
>
> On my urxvt console I seem to be able to copy and paste with control-alt-c and
> control-alt-p. Otherwise the middle button works pretty well for pasting
> console selected text.

Another way with pipes (on a linux terminal, at least) is

read selection from system clipboard
:r !xclip -o

write selection to system clipboard but read it back to keep it
:'<,'>! xclip -in && xclip -o

Rory

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