Vi(m) tip #9: Copy, Cut and Paste into Mac OS X clipboard
Alec Jacobson
June 30, 2010
I can get a lot done in vim without ever having to use the mouse or really exit "vim world". But the one thing that I keep falling back on is copy and pasting from and to other applications. Here's a way to do these
operations without resorting to the mouse or foreign keystrokes. Issue these in command mode:
Cut line under cursor
:.!pbcopy
Copy line under cursor
:.!pbcopy|pbpaste
Paste as line beneath cursor
:r !pbpaste
You can also use this if you've made a selection in Visual Mode:
Cut current selection
(warning: this grabs the whole lines of any lines within selection)
:'<,'>!pbcopy
Copy current selection
(warning: this grabs the whole lines of any lines within selection)
:'<,'>!pbcopy|pbpaste
Note: It seems for that one you should just select the first letter of each line. Not the entire block, then it just cuts...
Update: It's much simpler:
"*yy
Yanks the current line to the clipboard. Similarly,
"*dd
cuts the current line and
"*p
pastes the clipboard below the current line.