pbcopy adds stuff to the clopboard on OS X. will pipe the output of the above expression to the following command. So, when you trying to find out what you’ve copied earlier, a clipboard manager will be helpful. The content in clipboard will be overwritten once you do another copy & paste action. echo -n will print the current file name without a newline char at the end. The clipboard is the place to store the text, image, file path and all the stuff that you last copied (or cut).

(note, vim clears whatever it self has placed in the clipboard whenever quiting vim, so keep vim open after you have copied from it and untill after you've pasted from it.)Įdit: Beaten by kniren for some of the infoĮdit2: Using Primary selection with x11 apps also needs either vim from the gvim package, or a custom built one. stands for the current buffers filename in Vim. the gvim package from the arch repo's, which includes a vim with clipboard support enabled, and then you mark the text and then copy it to clipboard with ''+y', that is 'double-quote+plus+y' and then paste in whatever clipboard capable app with ussually ctrl+v.įinally, you can configure vim to always yank to clipboard(in addition to primary-selection), so you can mark text, press y, and then ctrl+v in whatever clipboard capable app afterwards to do that add 'set clipboard=unnamedplus' to your.

You have the choise of using either primary selection or clipboard.įor primary selection, you use vim's visual mode to mark text(not yank it, just mark), and then in whatever other app paste primary selection with 'shift+ins'.įor clipboard, you need e.g.

Mac clipboard manager vim