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Copy all the lines to clipboard

Is there any way to copy all lines from open file to clipboard in VI editor. I tried y G but it's not using clipboard to store those lines.

So is it possible?

Use:

: % y +

to yank all lines.

Explanation:

  • % to refer the next command to work on all the lines
  • y to yank those lines
  • + to copy to the system clipboard

NB : In Windows, + and * are equivalent see this answer .

You should yank the text to the * or + registers :

g g " * y G

Explanation:

  • gg to get the cursor to the first character of the file
  • "*y to start a yank command to the register * from the first line, until...
  • G to go the end of the file

on Mac

  • copy selected part: visually select text(type v or V in normal mode) and type :w !pbcopy

  • copy the whole file :%w !pbcopy

  • past from the clipboard :r !pbpaste

The clipboard is buffer + . To copy to clipboard, do " + y and [movement].

So, g g " + y G will copy the whole file.

Similarly, to paste from clipboard, " + p

Another easy way to copy the entire file if you're having problems using VI, is just by typing "cat filename". It will echo the file to screen and then you can just scroll up and down and copy/paste.

这就是我为拉取整个文件所做的:

ggVGy

您可以使用“cat”命令打开文件并使用鼠标复制

(in reply to @rshdev, and to avoid having to recompile vim with +xterm_clipboard per @nelstrom in comments on OP)

there's a program called xclip that works like putclip on Ubuntu 11:

:%!xclip -sel clip
u

it's not installed by default. to install, use:

sudo apt-get install xclip

On Ubuntu 12

you might try to install the vim-gnome package:

sudo apt-get install vim-gnome

I tried it, because vim --version told me that it would have the flag xterm_clipboard disabled (indicated by - ), which is needed in order to use the clipboard functionality.

-> installing the vim-gnome package on Ubuntu 12 also installed a console based version of vim, that has this option enabled (indicated by a + before the xterm_clipboard flag)

On Arch Linux

you may install vim-clipboard for the same reason.

If you run neovim then you should install xclip (as explained by help clipboard-tool )

您可以按 gg 将光标定位到文件的开头,然后按 yG 将所有内容从头到尾(G 定位)复制到缓冲区。祝您好运!

If you're using Vim in visual mode, the standard cut and paste keys also apply, at least with Windows.

  • CTRL A means "Mark the entire file.
  • CTRL C means "Copy the selection.
  • ESC means "De-select, so your next key press doesn't replace the entire file :-)

Under Ubuntu terminal (Gnome) at least, the standard copy also works ( CTRL SHIFT C , although there doesn't appear to be a standard keyboard shortcut for select all (other than ALT E followed by A ).

:%ya所有内容拉入 vim 的缓冲区,在命令模式下按p会将拉出的内容粘贴到光标当前所在的行之后。

I tried a few of the commands that people have mentioned above. None worked. Then I got hold of the simplest of them all.

Step 1: vi <filename>
Step 2: Right click on the title bar of the Putty window
Step 3: Select "Clear scrollback" (to avoid copying the rest of your SSH session)
Step 4: Right click again and select "Copy all to clipboard".

Do copy the whole file inside the vim or its tabs

y G 

then move to a tab and paste by

p

and to cut the whole file use

d G

gVim:

:set go=a

g g V G

See :help go-a :

'a' Autoselect:  If present, then whenever VISUAL mode is started,
 or the Visual area extended, Vim tries to become the owner of
 the windowing system's global selection.  This means that the
 Visually highlighted text is available for pasting into other
 applications as well as into Vim itself.  When the Visual mode
 ends, possibly due to an operation on the text, or when an
 application wants to paste the selection, the highlighted text
 is automatically yanked into the "* selection register.
 Thus the selection is still available for pasting into other
 applications after the VISUAL mode has ended.
     If not present, then Vim won't become the owner of the
 windowing system's global selection unless explicitly told to
 by a yank or delete operation for the "* register.
 The same applies to the modeless selection.

There wasn't a concept of "clipboard" in Bill Joy's vi so I don't think there is a built-in way to do it.

gVim's automatic copy-anything-highlighted-to-the-clipboard feature is easiest or use an external program via :!

For Cygwin's vim I use

:%!putclip
u

Maybe Ubuntu has a CLI app like putclip??

Well, all of these approaches are interesting, however as lazy programmer I use yank all line by using combination of number + y

for example you have source code file with total of 78 lines, you can do as below:

  1. gg to get cursor at first line
  2. insert 78 + y --> it yanks 78 lines below your cursor and current line

I have added the following line to my .vimrc

nnoremap <F5> :%y+<CR>

This allows me to copy all text in Vim to the clipboard by pressing F5 (in command mode).

If your fingers default to CTRL-A CTRL-C , then try the mappings from $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim .

" CTRL-C and CTRL-Insert are Copy
vnoremap <C-C> "+y

" CTRL-A is Select all
noremap <C-A> gggH<C-O>G
inoremap <C-A> <C-O>gg<C-O>gH<C-O>G
cnoremap <C-A> <C-C>gggH<C-O>G
onoremap <C-A> <C-C>gggH<C-O>G
snoremap <C-A> <C-C>gggH<C-O>G
xnoremap <C-A> <C-C>ggVG

I have them mapped to <Leader><Ca> and <Leader><Cc> .

I know ten years on this should be settled but the first two answers did not work for me so I kept digging. On a Redhat (remote server) - Windows 10 (local machine), if you cannot select the whole thing with a mouse, you are stuck because the usual copies do not work between the remote and the local machine clipboards.

So, to copy on the remote Linux and to paste on the local Windows, specify the primary buffer with the * and do a nice double yank

Use g g " * y y .

Here's a map command to select all to the clipboard using CTRL + a :

"
" select all with control-a
"
nnoremap <C-a> ggmqvG"+y'q

Add it to your .vimrc and you're good to go...

You can use a shortcur, like this one:

noremap <F6> :%y+<CR>

It means, when you push F6 in normald mode, it will copy the whole file, and add it to the clipboard. Or you just can type in normal mode :%y+ and then push Enter .

While many of the above answers are excellent, none of those solutions worked for me because I'm using the default VIM installation which came with Ubuntu 16.04, and it didn't have the clipboard option installed by default. I also wanted to paste the text into an external program.

Solution that worked: Ubuntu's default terminal allows you to highlight the entire contents by pressing Edit then Select All .

I have created a function to perform this action, place it on your ~/.vimrc .

fun! CopyBufferToClipboard()
    %y+
endfun
nnoremap <Leader>y :call CopyBufferToClipboard()<CR>
command! -nargs=0 CopyFile :call CopyBufferToClipboard()

OBS: If you are using neovim you also need some clipboard manager like xclip. for more information type in neovim :h checkhealth

It is also important to mention that not always a simple y will copy to the clipboard, in order to make every copy feed + wich is "Clipboard Register" try to set: :set clipboard=unnamed,unnamedplus . For mor information see: :h unnamed .

Here more information on vim wikia.

I use Vim in PowerShell and when I needed to copy a short block of code to windows clipboard;

I use :set nonumber to remove line numbers, then select the code visually with cursor and right click. Then I paste it to where ever I want with Ctrl + V .

easy-peasy way:

if you are in windows and want to copy whole text to your local clipboard not the remote server buffer you are working with, no need for any extra tool, just:

  1. zoom out up to see your whole file text on your screen
  2. with mouse select all of them and then right click to copy to your local clipboard

Note1: nowadays on many kind of terminals (like window terminal) you can zoom in/out with ctrl++/ctrl+- and reset zoom size with ctrl+0

Note2: if your vim is numbering lines of file you can :set nonumber

I couldn't copy files using the answers above but I have putty and I found a workaround on Quora.

  1. Change settings of your PuTTY session, go to logging and change it to "printable characters". Set the log file
  2. Do a cat of the respective file
  3. Go to the file you set in step #1 and you will have your content in the log file.

Note: it copies all the printed characters of that session to the log file, so it will get big eventually. In that case, delete the log file and cat the target file so you get that particular file's content copied on your machine.

Click the left mouse button, drag across the section you want to copy and release. The code automatically gets copied to clipboard.

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