vim copy command to clipboard / buffer

Question

How to copy the ex command to the clipboard or paste it to the buffer?

Using gvim on Windows.

Answer 1

The windows clipboard can be accessed through the buffer +. So pasting your clipboard as an ex-command can be done with <C-R>+. If you want to copy your ex-commands to the clipboard, you need to show the command history (q:) and copy it into the clipboard buffer ("+yy).

Answer 2

Enter command history with (from normal mode)

q:

Then select and copy(yank) commands you need with

"*y

Answer 3

:call setreg('+', getreg(':'))

Answer 4

To copy the last executed command to your clipboard:

:let @+=@:

Essentially assign the command (:) register to the system clipboard (+) register.