Vim and copy and paste from the outside (don't need to install the plugin)

The default vim does not have the function of interacting with the system clipboard and vim;

To complete the copying of the content in vim to the system clipboard, vim support is required +clipboard;

Enter in the terminal: vim --version | grep clipboard to view;

See the symbols in front of clipboard and xterm_clipboard;

• plus (+) for support
• Minus sign (-) means not supported

Paste the windows content into vim;

After ctrl+c under windows, in command line mode, press Shift+Inset to paste;

Copy and paste the content in vim to another place;

The content related to the pasteboard in the vim help document is as follows:

1. There are 12 pasteboards in vim, which are 0, 1, 2, ..., 9, a, ", +; use :regThe command can view the contents of each pasteboard. In vim, simply use y to copy to the “ (double quotation mark) pasteboard, and the same paste with p is also the paste.The contents of the board;

2. To copy the content of vim to a pasteboard, you need to exit the editing mode, enter the command line mode, select the content to be copied, and then press "Ny to complete the copy, where Nis the pasteboard number (note that you need to press the double quotation mark, then press the pasteboard number and finally press y), for example, to copy the content to the pasteboard a, select the content and press "ay.Points need to be explained:

• "Number pasteboard (temporary pasteboard) is special. Press y to copy it to this pasteboard, and press p to paste the content in this pasteboard;
• + pasteboard is the system pasteboard. After copying the content to the pasteboard with "+y, you can use Ctrl+V to paste it into other documents (such as firefox, gedit), and the same is true., to copy the content copied with Ctrl+C or right-click in other places to vim, you need to press "+p in normal mode;

3. To paste the contents of a clipboard in vim, you need to exit the editing mode. Press "Np in the normal mode, where N is the number of the pasteboard. As mentioned above, you can press"5p pastes the content in the No. 5 pasteboard, or you can press "+p to paste the content in the system global pasteboard.