Copy an entire document in Vi to clipboard

geokker · 02-21-2006, 04:11 AM

When reading a document with vi on a remote machine over ssh, how can I 'select all' and copy to my local clipboard? I imagine selecting two points in the document and 'yanking' the text - how do I do it?

jschiwal · 02-21-2006, 05:18 AM

It would probably work better if you would use scp to copy the file. If you just want a part of the file, you can write out a range of lines or a block.
For example, in vim
:200,400w fragment
will write the lines from 200-400 to a file called fragment. Vim has a shell escape, ":!", so after that you could copy the file "fragment" to your local machine using the scp command.

gansvv · 08-06-2009, 04:14 PM

Use

:%y+

to yank all lines.

G/