When I open Vim from a terminal, copy some text to the system clipboard, and exit Vim, the system clipboard gets cleared.
How to keep the copied text in the clipboard?
7 Answers
Use NeoVim. It by default doesn't clear the clipboard on exit. You will still need to set clipboard=unnamedplus (typically in ~/.config/nvim/init.vim) and have xsel or xclip tools installed.
Keep in mind that some other defaults are different as well.
Based on Matt's answer
When using his method copying multiple lines added slashes to the end of lines when pasting.
This should remedy that.
autocmd VimLeave * exe ":!echo " . shellescape(getreg('+')) . " | xclip -selection clipboard"
When i used "shellescape" with "system" newlines kept getting escaped. But that didn't happen when i used exe.
Don't know the real reason. but this worked.
Related