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It's true, but since vim is a bit old, copy/pasting can be a bit awkward due to having an internal clipboard with the buffer and not using the system's clipboard.

I wouldn't put that in a beginner tutorial (at least the system clipboard copying/pasting).



Vim has system clipboard support with the `+` and `*` registers.


Or even better, setting "set clipboard=unnamed" in your vimrc, which just makes it to so vim's clipboad is the system clipboard.


I never knew about this trick, which is pretty significant if you use tmux regularly. This just made my day!


Right. But what I was saying is that, I wouldn't throw that into a beginner's tutorial right away.




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