

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.
#Vim mac os copy install
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.
