How to paste text from Vim editor to browser?
Solution 1
Either
- Select the text without pressing a shortcut key and middle-click in the browser window, or
- Select the text, press shift-ctrl-c and then use ctrl-v to paste, or
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I'm not entirely sure what vim has to do with sql files and what these sql files are (sqlite?), but maybe you have to use vim because the environment variable EDITOR is set to vim; maybe you could do whatever you do by setting
export EDITOR=gedit
before starting whatever program you start to edit the sql files.
Solution 2
Use "+y to yank the selected text to your Ctrl-V clipboard ("*y would be middle mouse button)
Solution 3
Select the text you want to copy using Visual Mode in Vim editor.
v
enters visual mode and selects the character at cursor location.Shift-v
selects the entire line.In Vim, Copying is done using the
y
or "yanking". To copy selected text to system clipboard type"+y
in Normal Mode. Now you can paste it anywhere else usingCtrl-v
.To copy text from outside applications into Vim editor, first copy the text using the usual
Ctrl-C
command then go to Vim editor and type"+p
in Normal Mode.I find the above commands very tedious to type every time I copy-paste from outside Vim, so I mapped the
Ctrl-y
to copy and theCtrl-p
to paste in Vim. Now I don't have to type"+y
and"+p
every time.
Add these to your .vimrc
file:
nnoremap <C-y > "+y
vnoremap <C-y> "+y
nnoremap <C-p> "+p
vnoremap <C-p> "+p
Edit: Before following the above steps,check vim --verison
.Vim must have +xterm_clipboard
feature installed for the above method to work. If not , then run sudo apt-get install vim-gtk
to get the necessary packages.
Solution 4
you could simply use the mouse (right-click+copy) and (rightclick+Paste)
Solution 5
- Select the text using mouse
- Ctrl-Shift-C (Note the Shift)
- Switch to the new window where you want to paste
- Ctrl-V
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Harshal Kshatriya about 1 year
I need to copy text from vim to web browser since I'm not able to use gedit as I'm opening an sql file. How do I get this done?
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Harshal Kshatriya about 11 yearsI need to copy text from a file opened in vim editor into a multiline textbox on a webpage in firefox.
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chris.ritsen about 11 yearsI wrote this in vim and then copied it to this textbox by doing the following: select the text with
shift+v
, then press"+y
to yank to the system clipboard. Vim's clipboard setting is currently the default, which for me isclipboard=autoselect,exclude:cons\|linux
. This yanks to xclip, soxclip -o
on the command line should show whatever was copied. Then simplyctrl+v
into the textbox.
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nanofarad about 11 yearsSQL files are just text files containing SQL commands in ASCII or UTF-8. They generally have no special characters other than math symbols, parentheses, or quotes.
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January about 11 yearsYes. Except when they aren't, for example when they are sqlite3 files. Yes, some programs do that. In any case, that does not explain why the OP can't use gedit for them.
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nanofarad about 11 yearsSQLite files don't carry this file extension nor are they called SQL files.
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January about 11 years@ObsessiveFOSS You should have written "SQLite files should not carry this file extension"
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Eliah Kagan about 11 yearsThe
EDITOR
environment variable is often assumed to hold the name of an editor that can run without a GUI. For an editor likegedit
, it's usually best to set theVISUAL
environment variable instead. When a graphical editor can be used,VISUAL
is usually consulted beforeEDITOR
. Usually. -
sks over 10 yearsTo use
"+y
, you have to check X11-clipboard support first. This post explained how in detail. -
SY_13 almost 7 yearsNote: This is an unrelated question but does anyone know what the
<C
means in Markdown. I tried entering the above code in a block quote but the<C-y>
kept disappearing from the code block. -
SY_13 almost 7 yearsThe idea behind Vim is to not leave the Home Row of the Keyboard when you are typing. If you are still using the mouse then I don't see what benefit you can get out of using VIM.
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notalentgeek about 5 yearsI use Vim to edit SSH-ed code in remote. Yet I use VSCode to develop my application.