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I am having a peculiar problem with copying and pasting from a terminal in vim. Sporadically, copy-paste will refuse to work. Control-Shift-C and Control-Shift-V cause nothing. Often, after copying, paste menus will be disabled.

This is enough of an irritation that I would like to know if others are having the same difficulty. Thanks for any help.

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I do not use control+Shift+C but I just select the text with mouse and then use middle (or double side) click.

Would that suit you?

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  • This does not work for me. It is an intermittent problem and probably represents the dentition of an actual bug!
    – ncmathsadist
    Mar 15, 2011 at 0:49
  • I prefer this way too. @ncmathsadist: it doesn't work, you should try to reinstall vim.
    – Dzung Nguyen
    May 18, 2011 at 9:43
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I use vim's registers to paste text, even from other GUI applications:

  • Select text in an application, paste it in vim via "*p

  • Select text in vim via"*y, paste it to another application.

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