Re: Cutting and pasting across vim sessions

On 8/06/12 7:30 AM, Andy Todd wrote:
> On 8/06/12 12:33 AM, Dave wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using vim 7.3 on Mac 10.7.4. If I am editing a file using vim, I
>> can copy text by highlighting it and pressing 'y'. How can I paste
>> that text into another file, that is, after I close the file I'm
>> currently in (by doing Esc + ":q") and then opening a new file?
>>
>> I remember being able to do this on a Linux instance of vim, but I
>> can't remember how to configure vim to get this to happen.
>>
>> Thanks, - Dave
>>
>
> "+y will copy your selection to the clipboard. I haven't tried it on
> command line vim on the Mac but it works on every other platform.
>
> Regards,
> Andy

Oh, and "+gP will paste from the clipboard.

Regards,
Andy
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