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Why is it so difficult to copy paste in an editor which is considered as one of the most sophisticated editor ? I use VIM for almost everything except for copy pasting . All those internal buffer ..external buffer things are complicating things..

And the sad part is ..once i was editing a bash script using sublime ..I pressed escape :wq .. and tried executing that for a long time .. I was clueless for sometime after which i realised i didnt save the document..

If at all VIM had easy ways to copy paste..😥

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  • 6
    Ya i knew it vim sucks...

    Ooh shit i gotta leave

    Here comes the nazis who downvotes me for saying tht
  • 2
    @BroCow I am not a nazi..But i am vim patriot.. I like most thing in vim except copying..I find emacs keybindings ..controls confusing..
  • 4
    Put this in your .vimrc:
    set clipboard+=unnamedplus
  • 0
    @3141 and ? how to copy ?
  • 3
    @harish1996 Vims normal copy&paste (for example y when something is selected; p for pasting) will now be synchronised with the system clipboard.
  • 2
    Or use a plugin like system-copy for special mappings, if you want to keep the system clipboard separared from Vim's.
  • 0
    Thanks both..
  • 1
    @Alt-Grrr 😂😂😂..I know..But copy pasting is a basic requirement of an editor.. i use editors for simplicity and i love vim in most other ways..
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