cspiegel, 11 months ago

Others have covered PRIMARY vs CLIPBOARD (the separation of which I find to be extremely useful).

For Vim, you have access to these both via the registers + (CLIPBOARD) and * (PRIMARY). So, for example, to paste from your CLIPBOARD selection, you’d do this:

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">"+p
</span>

(or P). Similar for yanking:

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<span style="color:#323232;">"+yy
</span>

for example.