Re: Copying and pasting to and from other programs

Jorge Timón wrote:

> Hi, as the title says, I want to Copy and paste to and from other
> programs, obviously, in vim.
> I've tried this, but it's not working as I expected:
>
> vnoremap <C-c> y
> vnoremap <C-v> p
> nnoremap <C-v> ip
> map! <C-c> y
> map! <C-v> p
>
> My OS is ubuntu, just in case it matters.

Hi Jorge,

I'm not that familiar with running Vim on Linux, but take a look at

:help "*
:help 'clipboard'

I think you probably want e.g.

vnoremap <C-c> "*y

HTH,
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