How to paste text from Vim editor to browser?

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I need to copy text from vim to web browser since I'm not able to use gedit as I'm opening an sql file. How do I get this done?

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 20 '12 at 11:10

Either

Select the text without pressing a shortcut key and middle-click in the browser window, or
Select the text, press shift-ctrl-c and then use ctrl-v to paste, or
I'm not entirely sure what vim has to do with sql files and what these sql files are (sqlite?), but maybe you have to use vim because the environment variable EDITOR is set to vim; maybe you could do whatever you do by setting
```
export EDITOR=gedit
```
before starting whatever program you start to edit the sql files.

score 8 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:39

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Use "+y to yank the selected text to your Ctrl-V clipboard ("*y would be middle mouse button)

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edited May 23 '17 at 12:39

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answered Sep 20 '12 at 14:40

Philippe

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SY_13 · Answer 3 · 2016-12-15T14:40:02.567

Select the text you want to copy using Visual Mode in Vim editor. v enters visual mode and selects the character at cursor location. Shift-v selects the entire line.
In Vim, Copying is done using the y or "yanking". To copy selected text to system clipboard type "+y in Normal Mode. Now you can paste it anywhere else using Ctrl-v.
To copy text from outside applications into Vim editor, first copy the text using the usual Ctrl-C command then go to Vim editor and type "+p in Normal Mode.
I find the above commands very tedious to type every time I copy-paste from outside Vim, so I mapped the Ctrl-y to copy and the Ctrl-p to paste in Vim. Now I don't have to type "+y and "+p every time.

Add these to your .vimrc file:

nnoremap <C-y > "+y vnoremap <C-y> "+y nnoremap <C-p> "+p vnoremap <C-p> "+p

Edit: Before following the above steps,check vim --verison.Vim must have +xterm_clipboard feature installed for the above method to work. If not , then run sudo apt-get install vim-gtk to get the necessary packages.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 20 '12 at 12:12

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you could simply use the mouse (right-click+copy) and (rightclick+Paste)

answered Sep 20 '12 at 12:12

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 20 '12 at 14:13

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Select the text using mouse
Ctrl-Shift-C (Note the Shift)
Switch to the new window where you want to paste
Ctrl-V

answered Sep 20 '12 at 14:13

deshmukh

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered May 16 '13 at 03:15

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I would open the file in the browser using a file URL:

file:///home/dave/some-file

Not super elegant but it works.

answered May 16 '13 at 03:15

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