Question

I’ve been trying to extend the functionality of these three commands (y,c,d), so I’d have the content both in the system clipboard (“+ register) and in the normal registers.

This is what I’ve come up with so far:

nnoremap Y y$v$"+y$
nnoremap yy 0y$0v$"+y$
vnoremap y ygv"+y
" ------
nnoremap C y$v$"+c
nnoremap cc 0y$0v$"+c
vnoremap c ygv"+c
" ------
nnoremap D y$v$"+d$
nnoremap dd 0y$0v$"+d$
vnoremap d ygv"+d
" ------

And I have a few issues with this mapping:

1. For some odd reason, I have to resource my .vimrc before I can actually use these new bindings.
   Trying to use only nmap, vmap or even map just didn’t seem to work at all.
2. When I try to yank (for example) multiple lines (e.g. 2yy), it yanks the text to the “regular” register (“0) as expected, but yanks only the first line into the system clipboard.
3. I could’nt find a way to create this behaviour to y,c and d in normal-mode.

Can anyone help solve these issues?

I thought of creating a function, perhaps, so I could call it multiple times, but my vim script-fu is novice at best.

Answer 1

If you can do "+y, all these mappings are useless. Just add set clipboard+=unnamedplus to your ~/.vimrc.