Intellij IDEA with ideavim. Unable to copy text from another source.

Question

I tried copying text from IDEA with ideavim plugin using default vim keybindings ( y ). But this text is not copied in the global buffer, and I can only paste it in IDEA.
How can I use the copied piece of text in a browser, for example?

Answer 1

VIM yank command does not pull the system clipboard by default; he tugs at the nameless register. You can use * or + register to access the system buffer; also see this article for more information. Or just set this option to ~ / .ideavimrc:

set clipboard+=unnamed

This option ~ / .ideavimrc is supported in IdeaVIM since VIM-476 was implemented in version 0.38. If the file does not exist, create it in your user / home directory.

Note that this is all standard VIM behavior; none of them are specific to IdeaVIM, except for the configuration file name.