How to paste text from Vim editor to browser?

Question

I need to copy text from vim to web browser since I'm not able to use gedit as I'm opening an sql file. How do I get this done?

What do you mean by "copy text from vim to web browser"? Do you mean copy text from vim to html editor?
I need to copy text from a file opened in vim editor into a multiline textbox on a webpage in firefox.
I wrote this in vim and then copied it to this textbox by doing the following: select the text with shift+v, then press "+y to yank to the system clipboard. Vim's clipboard setting is currently the default, which for me is clipboard=autoselect,exclude:cons\|linux. This yanks to xclip, so xclip -o on the command line should show whatever was copied. Then simply ctrl+v into the textbox.

January · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-20 11:10:32Z

up vote 4 down vote accepted

Either

Select the text without pressing a shortcut key and middle-click in the browser window, or
Select the text, press shift-ctrl-c and then use ctrl-v to paste, or
I'm not entirely sure what vim has to do with sql files and what these sql files are (sqlite?), but maybe you have to use vim because the environment variable EDITOR is set to vim; maybe you could do whatever you do by setting
```
export EDITOR=gedit
```
before starting whatever program you start to edit the sql files.

answered Sep 20 '12 at 11:10

January
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	SQL files are just text files containing SQL commands in ASCII or UTF-8. They generally have no special characters other than math symbols, parentheses, or quotes. – ObsessiveSSOℲ Sep 20 '12 at 11:35
	Yes. Except when they aren't, for example when they are sqlite3 files. Yes, some programs do that. In any case, that does not explain why the OP can't use gedit for them. – January Sep 20 '12 at 11:56
	SQLite files don't carry this file extension nor are they called SQL files. – ObsessiveSSOℲ Sep 20 '12 at 19:15
	@ObsessiveFOSS You should have written "SQLite files should not carry this file extension" – January Sep 22 '12 at 6:02
	The `EDITOR` environment variable is often assumed to hold the name of an editor that can run without a GUI. For an editor like `gedit`, it's usually best to set the `VISUAL` environment variable instead. When a graphical editor can be used, `VISUAL` is usually consulted before `EDITOR`. Usually. – Eliah Kagan Oct 3 '12 at 9:18

user91632 · Answer 2 · 2012-09-20 12:12:17Z

up vote 2 down vote

you could simply use the mouse (right-click+copy) and (rightclick+Paste)

answered Sep 20 '12 at 12:12

user91632

deshmukh · Answer 3 · 2012-09-20 14:13:32Z

up vote 2 down vote

answered Sep 20 '12 at 14:13

deshmukh
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Philippe · Answer 4 · 2012-09-20 14:40:33Z

up vote 2 down vote

Use "+y to yank the selected text to your Ctrl-V clipboard ("*y would be middle mouse button)

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