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John Small
John Small

Reputation: 973

Get Vim on Mac terminal to copy to the clipboard

I'm using Vim on a Mac, installed via homebrew, version 8.0.

Vim --version shows +clipboard, and -xterm_clipboard.

I've tried 

 set clipboard=unnamed

in .vimrc

But I cannot get yanks to go on to the system clipboard. What do I do?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 805

Answers (2)

Kache
Kache

Reputation: 16737

It should "just work" on MacVim. One of the reasons I'm using it is for its OSX integration, including clipboard.

brew install macvim

mvim defaults to graphical mode. To run it in terminal mode:

mvim -v

In the past, I had an alias for vim -> mvim -v which handles most cases. These days I use the following script in ~/bin/vim, which is in my $PATH:

#!/bin/bash
mvim -v "$@"

Upvotes: 1

sudavid4
sudavid4

Reputation: 1141

seems like something is overriding your clipboard setting after loading your vimrc.

try :verbose set clipboard?. It should tell you when and where this variable was last set.

This guide gives you a bunch of hints on what to do to figure out what's going on and fix the problem

Upvotes: 0

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