Anyway i can get text from Vim in the windows clipboard?
my sessions are usually via PuTTY, and almost always in a gnu screen
if using :set mouse=v i can highlight some lines and they appear in windows' clipboard.
but for longer texts, selecting it all, and yanking to "+
does nothing.
Best Answer
Yanking is a feature of Vim itself which by default only works for that process. If you want yanking to utilize the clipboard you have to use "*y (current selection) or "+y (real clipboard) as described in sections 04.7 and 09.3 of Vim help. Use the following commands in Vim to look this up:
PuTTY however has no access to either clipboard of the machine you're connecting to.
A quick workaround would be to use the cat command on the file, not in a screen session, and then select the text in your PuTTY which automatically copies it. Doing this outside a screen session ensures you can scroll up and get all of the text.