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Copy from vim into system clipboard on windows subsystem for linux
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| " Kind of hacky but it works. This just copies stuff to a file to cat it into the windows clipboard and then | |
| " deletes the file so that you don't have anything risky laying around in there. | |
| " fake copy current line or selection | |
| noremap YY "yyy \| :call writefile( getreg('y', 1, 1), $HOME.'/.vimbuffer') \| :!cat $HOME/.vimbuffer \| clip.exe <CR> \| :!rm $HOME/.vimbuffer<CR> | |
| " fake copy entire file | |
| noremap <C-a> :%y y \| :call writefile( getreg('y', 1, 1), $HOME.'/.vimbuffer') \| :!cat $HOME/.vimbuffer \| clip.exe <CR> \| :!rm $HOME/.vimbuffer<CR> | |
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