SSH – Clipboard over SSH session through VIM

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I have a server running SSH, when I edit a file with vim on the remote server, :y+ doesn't work since the VIM binary on that linux system wasn't compiled with X support.

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So how should I share the clipboard? Just transparently like what I do on local system

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Use a vim compiled with X support instead, e.g. gvim -v, along with X forwarding in SSH.

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If you run ssh with X forwarding, this is transparent: remote commands (including xclip) have access to your X server (including its keyboard). Make sure you have ForwardX11 yes in your ~/.ssh/config and X11Forwarding yes in the server sshd_config (depending on your distributions, these options may be on or off by default).

<myconffile.conf sed {...} | xclip -i

There are other ways of working on remote files that may be more convenient, for example mounting remote directories on your local machine with SSHfs, or opening remote files in Emacs with Tramp. If you have ssh and FUSE set up and SSHfs installed, SSHfs is as easy as mkdir ~/net/myserver; sshfs myserver:/ ~/net/myserver. If you have ssh set up and Emacs installed, Tramp is as easy as opening /myserver:/path/to/file.

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On my windows laptop, pasting into remote vim, this is the only thing I could get to work:

Ctrl+C was fine for copying.. but I needed Shift+Insert to Paste !

(A good reason to get a laptop where Insert can be accessed without pressing a secondary key)

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