
On insert mode you can simply Ctrl-r Ctrl-o +. To paste from the clipboard in normal mode you can: "+p To copy to the clipboard you have to either select your target, let's say a paragraph vip and then "+y, which means to the register + copy the selected portion or you can simply type in normal mode: "+yip, which means: to the register + copy inner paragraph. If it returns 1 you do have clipboard support To paste text in the clipboard - before the location of the cursor:įirst, check if your vim has clipboard support installed :echo has('clipboard') To paste text in the clipboard - after the location of the cursor:

This time when you check you should find +xterm_clipborad. You can stick to non-gui vim by calling vim from the terminal, the same way you did before.


#Vi notepad for mac install#
If you find -xterm_clipboard, you have two options:ġ) Compile vim yourself, with the xterm_clipboard flag onĢ) Uninstall vim, install gvim (vim-gtk or vim-gnome) instead. The GUI version of vim always has clipboard support, however, if you like to use Vim from a terminal, you will have to check for X11-clipboard support.įrom the console, type: $ vim -version | grep xterm If you want to copy paste contents from vim to an external program, you need to access the system clipboard. :tabnew /path/to/second/file) and press p to paste it. If you want to copy paste contents across terminals, open the first file, yanking the text you want, then open your second file within vim (e.g. If you want to copy paste contents within the same file, use yank and paste.
