Gain clipboard support for Vim on OS X
Just:
brew update
brew install vimRestart terminal, and ensure you have +clipboard in output of:
vim --version | grep clipboardThen use + register to copy and paste code.
Bonus: read this tooltip by Jan about pasting from any register in Vim
Bonus 2: Make the system clipboard default register for yank.
Written by Adam Stankiewicz
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Did the update, it did not enabled clipboard when issuing 'brew install vim'.
Perhaps an option to configure ?
@niloct It did for me. Ensure which vim is returning the correct binary.
I had to alter the Formula for brewing vim:
system "./configure", "--prefix=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}",
"--mandir=#{man}",
"--enable-gui=no",
"--without-x",
"--disable-nls",
"--enable-multibyte",
"--enable-clipboard",
"--with-tlib=ncurses",
"--enable-cscope",
"--with-features=huge",
*language_opts
system "make"Notice the line which enables clipboard. After that brew was successful with +clipboard
Keep in mind if you use brew edit vim you'll also need to use brew install -s vim in order to build from source (possibly after a brew uninstall vim to get rid of the bottle, otherwise you ALWAYS get the bottled version which does NOT have +clipboard.
