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Re:Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition by e12e on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @01:20PM (#10813394)
Technically vim exposes the x11 clipboards (plural) as registers - I never use registers, but I think

  "+p
[Ed: for those not familiar with vim: " can be thought of as 'with/from/into register named:', + is the register and p is paste. Similarily "+yw is 'yank/copy current word into register named +' ]

should be paste x11 selection. I don't normally use gvim/vim as an x11 application, but looks like * (star) is typically system clipboard:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Accessing_the_system_clipboard

Re:Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition by sandGorgon on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @01:25PM (#10813413)
why does it work on osx then ? is there something special happening at the OS level there ?
Re:Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition by e12e on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @01:29PM (#10813443)
Afaik ctrl-v works in gvim? (I think its just bound to "+p or similar).
Re:Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition by bla2 on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @07:42PM (#10815426)
Only with :behave ms (default on windows), else ctrl-v starts block visual mode.