 Tip #21: easy pasting to windows apps
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February 25, 2001 22:31 |
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In Vim, the unnamed register is the " register, and the Windows
Clipboard is the * register. This means that if you yank something,
you have to yank it to the * register if you want to paste it into
a Windows app. If this is too much trouble, set the 'clipboard'
option to 'unnamed'. Then you always yank to *.
So pasting to windows apps doesn't require prefixing "* :
set clipboard=unnamed
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Additional Notes
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[email protected],
March 4, 2001 11:27
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You can also have the Visual selection automatically copied to the clipboard. If you
:set go+=a
and then make a Visual selection, you can switch to another application (such as your mail reader) and paste.
:help guioptions
:help quotestar
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[email protected],
October 28, 2001 17:34
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Since the * buffer won't allow (as far as I know anyway) appending to it, you also do something like:
"aY
to grab a line then move somewhere else
"AY
to append another line to the a buffer and then finally:
:let @*=@a
This puts both lines into the * buffer for pasting. I picked this up on the vim email list I think from Benji.
Scott LaBounty
Netaphor Software, Inc.
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[email protected],
November 15, 2004 1:57
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| thats not to the help of the schools internet, so more information would help a lot,,............
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