Macos – How to copy into the Mac clipboard from vim

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I can paste from vim in one terminal window to vim in another, but not to anything outside vim. I've read numerous posts on the subject, and nothing I've found has helped. Copy/pasting from MacVim works, but I prefer using VIM.

I'm using OSX 10.7.5 and Vim 7.4, installed via MacPorts.

vim --version

shows +clipboard, +x11, +xterm_clipboard.

I've tried "+y, "*y combined with both visual selection and range selection.

In my ~/.vimrc , I've got 

set clipboard=unnamedplus,unnamed,autoselect

EDIT:

Solution found!
Now, y, yy and so on work perfectly! Whatever I yank in Vim, I can paste outside, and whatever I command-c outside, I can p in Vim.

The solution:
As per FDinof's suggestion, I reinstalled via MacPorts WITHOUT x11, instead just doing

sudo -v port install vim +huge

For the record, I still have

set clipboard=unnamedplus,unnamed,autoselect

in my ~/.vimrc

Thank you for your help!

Best Answer

x11 isn't needed for copying to the clipboard since mac doesn't use x11. Recompile vim without x11. My guess is that you are copying to the x11 clipboard which you don't know how to access from the mac side.

In macports using the huge variant is sufficient to get clipboard support working.

port install vim +huge
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