Copy vim selected text to system clipboard

vimxsel

My vim is not compiled with clipboard feature. So, i use xsel as suggested by Gilles to copy/paste the contents.

I use :.w !xsel -b for selecting the current line and, :w !xsel -b to select the entire document.

But sometimes, i need to move multiline selection done using V to clipboard. How can i do using xsel?

Note: i tried Ctrl-Shift-c, it didn't work. Anyways, i am not a great fan of Ctrl combo, since it breaks my fingers.

You can still do basically the same thing from visual mode. Once you have the area selected, hit the following¹:

:'>,'> !tee >(xsel -b)

You need to pipe to tee so that the contents of your selected area isn't cleared.

¹_{Adapted from here.}