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I cannot copy into the + or * register.

:echo has('clipboard') from within Vim returns 0 meaning I don't have that feature flag, I don't want to recompile.

I'm running wayland so I cannot use X11 based solutions

brother-bilo
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I had trouble finding resources so here is what ended up working by adding in ~/.vimrc.

nnoremap <C-@> :call system("wl-copy", @")<CR>

wl-copy is a Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland and it will copy the piped content you give it to system clipboard.

What mapping above achieves is

  1. Activate the mapping with Ctrl + @. or choose any convenient key combo
    • nnoremap <C-@>

  2. take the contents of the " register,

    • denoted by the @" argument

  3. and pipe contents of @" as an argument to the system wl-copy function

    • shown by :call system("wl-copy", @").

Alternatively

Assuming you only want to copy line sections of the file, do shift+v to go into visual mode and only highlight the lines I want to copy. Then do.

:'<,'>w !wl-copy

where

  • '<,'> - means you used visual mode to select a range (you don't type this)
  • w !{cmd} - write the range to the stdin of cmd, see more at :help w_c

You can map that with 

xnoremap <silent> <C-@> :w !wl-copy<CR><CR>
  • xnoremap: mapping will work in visual mode only
  • <silent>: mapping which will not be echoed on the command line
  • <C-@>: desired key combination
  • :w !{cmd}: write the range to the stdin of cmd
  • <CR><CR>: two enters are needed otherwise command line waits for another command
brother-bilo
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The feature the author is asking for will be hopefully implemented in vim. See for details: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/5157

There is also a workaround plugin: https://github.com/jasonccox/vim-wayland-clipboard

As for me, I'm using my own workaround:

" Yank into all these at once:
"     vim y/p register
"     wayland primary
"     wayland clipboard
xnoremap <silent> <leader>y y:call system("wl-copy --trim-newline", @*)<cr>:call system("wl-copy -p --trim-newline", @*)<cr>
Evgenii Burmentev
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