Hi,
I choose all text of the file, by

gg"*yG

does it mean the text already goes to Clipboard, as I cannot paste them out?

You should mention what editor you're using.
By the keys you entered, my guess is vi(m)

The "gg" goes to the top of the screen, y indicates copying data to the buffer, and G means go to bottom of file.
The buffer is inside of vi(m) so you can use p to paste it.

Thanks. I'm using vi editor. If I've gone to web browser. How to paste the text?

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Accessing_...stem_clipboard

use + instead of *

I tried and I cannot copy all text of the file by

gg"+yG

what do you mean by that? What have you tried, what happened?

I press

gg"+yG

on Text file within vi editor, then have gone to web browser, but I cannot paste the whole text file into web email.

what kind of vi(m) do you use? Version??

Sorry, how to get the version of vi editor being used?

:version

Sorry, it's VIM 7.0

If you are copying text from your vi window to a browser window, you may be able to highlight the text with your mouse in vi, then right-click in your browser window and paste.

This is not good actually! How about that there're one million lines inside the file?

How about you try to read the documentation on VIM yourself???
...or look something up on Google, which would show you:

in vi (elvis), enter ed mode with : as seen here

KEYSTROKES

:1,$y

now do

$ man ed

read the ed(1) manpage about what ed does and that entering : mode allows you to give ed commands (also vi features). realize in vim, ed slighly altered not "full", thank elvis for providing access to ed within vi(1)

for scripting sh(1), ed(1) is extremely useful for automated text editing (awk(1) is as well)

whooo baby!

if your using xterm, vi(1) selections of course do NOT go into X11's Clipboard automatically, they must be selected (usu. with mouse)

HOWEVER elvis(1) has a an X11 mode which does work with X11's Clipboard, just install evis and use in X11 mode if you like it

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