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Having a chunk of text selected in Vim's visual mode, I'd like to copy that to the system's clipboard (be it the primary or X11's). Is there an easy solution for this? Obviously, a simple y doesn't do the trick.

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you have to yank it to the clipboard register

"*y

:help registers will tell you more about that.

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In my case, "+y copies to the "Ctrl-V" accessible clipboard. Thanks for the hint! – Boldewyn Mar 12 '10 at 11:22
well, keep the 2 buffers in sync with nongnu.org/autocutsel ... in the help of vim the diffs between the 2 clipboard mechanisms is explained as well. but since you are happy already ... :) – akira Mar 12 '10 at 11:33
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