Ever need to copy something into and out of Vim? There's a built-in way to do that and it's called the * (star) register. The star register is a register like any other in Vim but it's contents are that of your system clipboard.
You can get data out of Vim by putting it on your system clipboard:
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“*yy- Yank the current line into your * register, the system clipboard -
“*yap- Yank Around Paragraph: copies the whole paragraph, method, or function
And you can get data out of system and into Vim by pasting it from your system clipboard:
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“*p- Paste from the system clipboard below the current line -
“*P- Paste from the system clipboard above the current line
I've got a full write up and a short screencast over on VimTricks.
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