MacOS – Copying text in vim to the global clipboard

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On my linux computer I am able to copy text to the clipboard with the command "+y. How do I do the same on Mac?

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macOS version of vim is compiled with -clipboard (you can check with vim --version). So there's no shared clipboard available. In this case you can download/recompile new vim or you can use system command pbcopy (man page). Here's how to use it as CTRL ⌃+C shortcut:

map <C-c> y:e ~/clipsongzboard<CR>P:w !pbcopy<CR><CR>:bdelete!<CR>

Add this to your ~/.vimrc file.

Explanation of this command can be found here: vimtips @ quora

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It’s Vim, feel free to remap anything to anything you want.

To detect what you numpad + sends to Vim press C-v then + on numpad – you will see something like

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However, it would be better to do this kind of mappings not in Vim but in your terminal emulator (which you have not mentioned) by two reasons:

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Mapping <esc>Ok to something will add a delay in processing single <esc> press (see :h timeoutlen).

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