created February 25, 2001 · complexity basic · author jean ·
version 5.7 In Vim, the unnamed register is the " register, and
the Windows Clipboard is the * register. This means that if you
yank something, you have to yank it to the * register if you
want to paste it into a Windows app. If this is too much
trouble, set the 'clipboard' option to 'unnamed'. Then you
always yank to *. So pasting to windows apps doesn't require
prefixing "* : You can also have the Visual selection
automatically copied to the clipboard. If you and then make a
Visual selection, you can switch to another application (such as
your mail reader) and paste. Since the * buffer won't allow (as
far as I know anyway) appending to it, you also do something
like: to grab a line then move somewhere else to append another
line to the a buffer. Then: This puts both lines into the *
buffer for pasting. set clipboard=unnamed, also works under the
X windowing system. BenArmston 09:52, 23 May 2008 (UTC) - Well,
if you still have a good ol' 3-button m