How to Use Vim with Clipboard on Debian

Instructions

1. Install extra package that can complete more features on Vim with GUI. There many packages are available on the repository. That is vim-athena, vim-gnome, vim-gtk and vim-nox. In this case, I have used Xfce which applies GTK GUI. I will install vim-gtk for enable clipboard feature and others. For Gnome user, you should installing vim-gnome. Read more

   $ sudo aptitude install vim-gtk

2. Now, you will found + registers in :reg in Vim. Trick is use Vim registers

• "+yy for yank to + register which is binding to clipboard
• "+p (Normal mode) for paste from + register which is binding to clipboard
• Ctrl r + (Insert mode) for paste from + register which is binding to clipboard

How to use registers in Vim

• Show a list of registers: press :reg in normal mode
• Access Vim registers: Press " and following name of register.

Ex.

• "0 for accessing 0 register
• "+ for accessing + register
• Vim registers use: Press " [name] and vim command. Ex.
  • "0yy means to yank to 0 register
  • "5yy means to yank to 5 register
  • "5p means to paste from 5 register

For more detail about Vim register, I will write a post later.

Links

• How to make vim paste from (and copy to) system's clipboard? from stackoverflow