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Prevent Vim from clearing the clipboard on exit

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?

Solution

  • Synthesizing answers from superuser, just add the following to your .vimrc

    autocmd VimLeave * call system("xsel -ib", getreg('+'))