Vim: an option to use system clipboard

[jneiku]

Thanks for all the tremendous work!

I'm wondering if it's possible to add an option similar to Sublime's Vintageous "vintageous_use_sys_clipboard" mode.

Basically, the desire is to yank and paste from system clipboard and not a separate vim-only clipboard.

Thanks ahead!

[johnfn]

I like the idea.

@rebornix is this possible currently?

[johnfn]

(Currently you can use cmd-c and cmd-v or their windows equivalents to access the system clipboard within insert mode.)

[rebornix]

@johnfn clipboard is a system stuff and we don't want to wrap it again in Code, see https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/217 .

But we can still leverage third party npm modules to handle the clipboard. I like it as well, using sys_clipboard to cache register is fun sometimes.

[rebornix]

@jneiku , @aminroosta already added support for system clipboard via #543. I'd like to close it for now as what @aminroosta added is a native Vim approach. Please give it a try and see how it's going then let's see if we need reopen this issue.