Vim “yank” does not seem to work

December 30, 2023 by Tarik

If you have the setting set clipboard=unnamedplus in your .vimrc then this will not be working.

For OSX you have to use set clipboard=unnamed

For Linux you will probably need to use set clipboard=unnamedplus

Heres the snippet from my personal .vimrc

if system('uname -s') == "Darwin\n"
  set clipboard=unnamed "OSX
else
  set clipboard=unnamedplus "Linux
endif