selecting in visual mode to paste outside vim window

Question

I need to paste some selected block in visual mode to outside of vim. Currently I need to select this block manually from mouse to paste outside of vim.

As selecting texts in visual mode is easier ,it would be efficient to select some text for pasting outside of vim.

Answer 1

You could yank the text into the + (plus) register, that is mapped to the system clipboard. Just select the text in the mode you like and then type "+y.

Answer 2

Disclaimer: Linux

So what I have noticed is you need clipboard support compiled in to your vim. I ended up compiling my own vim, which had the clipboard support. To check run vim --version and look for a +clipboard or a -clipboard, if it's + then yay you have it, if it's - then you need to compile vim yourself or download a version with clipboard support compiled in. Then the answers people have said seem to work. For me "*y copies into the buffer that is pasted by pressing the middle button, and "+y copies into the buffer which is the normal control + c or on the terminal control + shift + c so what I put into my vimrc was

map <C-c> "+y 

that way doing control + c me paste it somewhere else by pressing the exact same command

:wq