Copying from terminal Vim

So, I have almost completely made the switch from MacVim to terminal vim. It hasn’t been easy giving up a lot of the niceties that come for free with MacVim. But, there was one thing in particular that really bothered me — copying code from vim and pasting it somewhere else.

Well, never fear. Vim’s “*” register maps to pbcopy (at least on OSX)

So, next time you want to show that kickass piece of code to your friends, just do the following after making a selection:

“*y

You now have that awesome bit of code in your clipboard! Show it off with pride!