Ubuntu – Unable to copy from vim to system clipboard

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As said in the title I am unable to copy from vim to system clipboard. Viceversa works, copying from outside vim and pasting with p is ok.

I have installed clipboard support, vim version is 7.3.429:

$ vim --version | grep clip
+clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info +comments 
+xsmp_interact +xterm_clipboard -xterm_save

I have:

set clipboard=unnamedplus

in my .vimrc and it is set when I do:

set clipboard?

or

:echo has('clipboard')

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and vim inside gnome-terminal (but also GVim has the same problem). Any idea?

Thanks

Best Answer

This is what works for me (Ubuntu 13.10):

Reinstall vim as vim-gtk:

sudo apt-get install vim-gtk

select what you want using the mouse - then type to copy to clipboard:

"+y

to paste to vim from clipboard type:

"+p

I don't know why but comparing the output of vim --version shows that the usual vim installation is quite restricted compared to vim-gtk. Replacing vim with vim-gtk did not affect any plugings.

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