I would like to set Y and P to copy and paste directly to the system clipboard instead of vim buffer.

I don't want any additional commands. Just the normal ones, but they should copy to and paste from the system clipboard and bypass the vim buffer.

How can I achieve this?

I'm running vim on Ubuntu 10.10.

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6 Answers

You can have Vim use the clipboard instead of the default register for yanking, putting, etc., by adding this command to your ~/.vimrc:

set clipboard+=unnamed

See

:help clipboard
:help 'clipboard'

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You first need to see if vim is compiled with clipboard support, run vim --version | grep clip and see if there is a + or - in front of clipboard and xterm-clipboard.

If it has clipboard support, copying from and pasting into the * or + registers should use the system/X11 clipboards, so "*yy would copy a line and "*p would paste it.

In Ubuntu 10.10 you can install vim-gnome to have clipboard support compiled in.

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have a try :

"+y and "+p

this works for me, on Ubuntu.

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The default VIM in Ubuntu is vim-tiny, which is not compiled for system clipboard support. You need to install the full VIM and the Gnome GUI to get clipboard support:

sudo at-get install vim-full vim-gnome

After you install those two packages you can then use the commands that Akira and wliao mentioned.

yank to the clipboard register:

 "*y

paste from the clipboard register:

 "*p

for more information:

 :help clipboard

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On my Ubuntu 18.04 (GNOME Shell) this enabled clipboard:

sudo apt-get install vim-gnome

vim --version|grep clipboard
+clipboard +jumplist +persistent_undo +virtualedit
-ebcdic +mouseshape +statusline +xterm_clipboard

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