How to copy selected lines to clipboard in vim. I know how to do it for all text files, but I want to do in for selected lines.
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How to copy selected lines to clipboard in vim. I know how to do
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How to copy selected lines to clipboard in vim. I know how to do it for all text files, but I want to do in for selected lines.
Thanks!
SHIFTV puts you in select lines mode. Then "+y yanks the currently selected lines to the
+register which is the clipboard. There are quite a few different registers, for different purposes. See the section onselection and drop registersfor details on the differences between*and+registers on Windows and Linux. Note that there is only a distinction between "* and "+ for X11 systems. Under MS-Windows, use of "* and "+ is actually synonymous and refers to the gui-clipboard. So, on windows*(sharp) register can be used as well: "*y