Indeed, the system vim has no clipboard support/access, and copying with Cmd-C sometimes has trouble with line boundaries and certainly can't deal with more than a screenful, so:
- Install and use the full GUI MacVim (it really is very nice), or, - Install MacVim, then run "/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim" instead of "vim"; this will bring most of MacVim's goodness (including clipboard access and more colors for syntax highlighting) to terminal windows, or, - write your selected text to the command "!pbcopy", which will put it on the system clipboard (I've used This often when I find that I've started something in the OS-supplied vim that I want to move over to MacVim). In the latter two cases, you can write shell commands or vim scripts to make the change nearly transparent. Cheers, Carl > On Nov 15, 2013, at 1:54 AM, Li Xue <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Does anyone know how to copy text from vim into system clipboard? I am using > iterm2 with the vim that comes with the Mac OS X system. > > I tried +y and tried *y, but still could not copy the text into the system > clipboard. > > Thanks. > > Li > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_mac" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_mac" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
