- #Where is clipboard mac os x mac os x#
- #Where is clipboard mac os x install#
- #Where is clipboard mac os x update#
I added it with "brew install vim" then added an alias to my bash profile (~/. Tip is still valid.Ĭheck to see if your vim supports +clipboard, with No longer works but pbcopy and pbpaste still do. It does however work with MacVim in terminal mode. In iTerm.app or Terminal. In the Preferences window, activate clipboard synchronization.
#Where is clipboard mac os x update#
Install or update XQuartz.app and start it. Make sure you have a clipboard-aware Vim build.
#Where is clipboard mac os x mac os x#
As noted above just add the following to ~/.vimrcĪs of Mountain Lion, the previous tip does not appear to work in system-provided vim yanked lines do not go into the system clipboard, nor does anything yanked to the * or + registers. Clipboard sharing on Mac OS X is easy On the Mac. Since version 7.3 the console version of Vim supports Mac OS X clipboard. Now it should work.Īnother tip: For cross-platform clipboard sharing you can use the open-source (GPL) ClipboardMultiSharer with text and image data on any platform that runs Java in particular, Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. In autoload/fakeclip.vim: Search for system('uname -o') and change it to system('uname'). For everyone who gets "Platform not supported: Unknown" or something like this should try this: It looks like there's a problem with fakeclip on Mac OS X (I don't know which versions are affected). Use fakeclip pseudo clipboard register for non-GUI version of Vim on Cygwin and Mac OS X Vnoremap y ::let \| execute "normal! vgvy" \| let res=system("pbcopy", \| let the trick is to use "vgvy" to grab the selection into default register and feed into pbcopy. Update: There is a potential fix for the non-whole line case (I use the keystroke leader + y instead of F2 for mapping): Later I will try to figure out a workaround. I'm working with the non-GUI version on Mac OS X. If you in visual mode however, it will grab all the selected text.Ĭomment: the nmap commands work perfectly, but unfortunately the vmap-copy doesn't (it grabs the whole line instead of the selected text). If you are in normal mode, it will just grab the line your working on. The nopaste setting makes sure that auto-indent doesn't go crazy when you try to paste something in.
pastes, but I have it configured so it works very well in insert mode and in normal mode.My maps just add onto what these guys have worked on. Pressing copies the current line to the clipboard, pressing pastes the current content from the clipboard.
I use 4,8w !pbcopy which prevents the deletion of lines within the window-file where I run the command. I failed to mention that I compile Vim with '-without-x -disable-gui' therefore I don't have access to the unnamed registers. I find that the + register works for transferring back and forth to the OS X clipboard. You can use homebrew to install the latest vim and your clipboard should work in the terminal. Operations such as yy, D, and P work with the system clipboard. :r !pbpaste "Paste clipboard content to current lineįor MacVim and Windows Gvim, I have the following in my ~/.vimrc: :!echo "%:p" | pbcopy "Copy current filename to clipboard You may need to use `brew install vim` to update to Vim 7.4 instead of the default 7.3. You can also use pbcopy/pbpaste command to achieve the same thing.