created March 27, 2004 · complexity basic · author Khairulmizam Samsudin · version 5.7
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In Vim 7.3 or higher, Mac OS has built-in clipboard support; see the Comments section.
As of my knowledge there is no clipboard register for Mac OS X unlike Windows (VimTip21). However you can use pbcopy/pbpaste command to achieve the same thing.
Example:
:.!pbcopy "Copy current line clipboard :4,8!pbcopy "Copy line 4 to 8 :!echo "%:p" | pbcopy "Copy current filename to clipboard :r !pbpaste "Paste clipboard content to current line
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For MacVim and Windows Gvim, I have the following in my ~/.vimrc:
set clipboard=unnamed
Operations such as yy, D, and P work with the system clipboard. No need to prefix them with "+ or "*.
I find that the + register works for transferring back and forth to the OS X clipboard.
I failed to mention that I compile Vim with '--without-x --disable-gui' therefore I don't have access to the unnamed registers. pbcopy/pbpaste is a work around.
I use 4,8w !pbcopy which prevents the deletion of lines within the window-file where I run the command.
I've got the following lines in my .vimrc:
map <F2> :.w !pbcopy<CR><CR> map <F3> :r !pbpaste<CR>
Pressing <F2> copies the current line to the clipboard, pressing <F3> pastes the current content from the clipboard.
My maps just add onto what these guys have worked on.
- <F1> pastes, but I have it configured so it works very well in insert mode and in normal mode. The nopaste setting makes sure that auto-indent doesn't go crazy when you try to paste something in.
- <F2> copies text. If you are in normal mode, it will just grab the line your working on. If you in visual mode however, it will grab all the selected text.
nmap <F1> :set paste<CR>:r !pbpaste<CR>:set nopaste<CR> imap <F1> <Esc>:set paste<CR>:r !pbpaste<CR>:set nopaste<CR> nmap <F2> :.w !pbcopy<CR><CR> vmap <F2> :w !pbcopy<CR><CR>
Comment: the nmap commands work perfectly, but unfortunately the vmap-copy doesn't (it grabs the whole line instead of the selected text). I'm working with the non-GUI version on Mac OS X. Later I will try to figure out a workaround.
Use fakeclip pseudo clipboard register for non-GUI version of Vim on Cygwin and Mac OS X
It looks like there's a problem with fakeclip on Mac OS X (I don't know which versions are affected). For everyone who gets "Platform not supported: Unknown" or something like this should try this:
In autoload/fakeclip.vim: Search for system('uname -o') and change it to system('uname'). Now it should work.
Another tip: For cross-platform clipboard sharing you can use the open-source (GPL) ClipboardMultiSharer with text and image data on any platform that runs Java; in particular, Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
Since version 7.3 the console version of Vim supports Mac OS X clipboard. As noted above just add the following to ~/.vimrc
set clipboard=unnamed