Vim: Is there a way to make yank use system clipboard

Created on 20 Oct 2016 · 4Comments · Source: VSCodeVim/Vim

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What did you do?

hit yy

What did you expect to happen?

copy to clipboard

What happened instead?

just copied inside the very vscode instance itself

Technical details:

VSCode Version:1.6.1
VsCodeVim Version: .3.8
OS: ubuntu 16.4

Source

NikosEfthias

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Most helpful comment

Set useSystemClioboard to true. From our readme:

useSystemClipboard

Enable yanking to the system clipboard by default
Type: Boolean (Default: false)
Note: Linux users must have xclip installed

jpoon on 20 Oct 2016

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Set useSystemClioboard to true. From our readme:

useSystemClipboard

Enable yanking to the system clipboard by default
Type: Boolean (Default: false)
Note: Linux users must have xclip installed

jpoon on 20 Oct 2016

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Unfortunately, Vim does not copy to clipboard by default, which is why this setting is off by default. But hey, it's a setting! Do whatever you want with it. :)