""noremap <Leader>y "*y
""noremap <Leader>p "*p
"
noremap <Leader>y "+y
noremap <Leader>p "+p
noremap <Leader>P "+P


this works for me, on windows and linux both
On Monday, March 6, 2023 at 11:12:25 PM UTC+1 Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:

> On 06/03/23, Rory Campbell-Lange ([email protected]) wrote:
> > On 04/03/23, Tony Mechelynck ([email protected]) wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 3:32 AM Angel M Alganza <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > The reason for this dfference in behaviour is that xterm doesn't use
> > > the X11 clipboard (register + in Vim) but only the X11 selection
> > > (register * in Vim). In almost every other GUI, including gvim, you
> > > can use Edit→Cut, Edit→Copy and Edit→Paste to pass text from one
> > > program to another via the clipboard, but in xterm you need to have
> > > some text selected (and, in Vim, written to "*) then the middle mouse
> > > button pastes into xterm; conversely, IIUC anything selected in xterm
> > > will appear in Vim's * register and can be pasted with "*p or with
> > > <MiddleMouse>.
> > 
> > On my urxvt console I seem to be able to copy and paste with 
> control-alt-c and
> > control-alt-p. Otherwise the middle button works pretty well for pasting
> > console selected text.
>
> Another way with pipes (on a linux terminal, at least) is 
>
> read selection from system clipboard
> :r !xclip -o
>
> write selection to system clipboard but read it back to keep it
> :'<,'>! xclip -in && xclip -o
>
> Rory
>

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