If you are looking for ways to copy all text from Vim (vi) editor to your clipboard then you can follow the below steps.
- Open the file in the vim (vi) editor.
- Now enter visual mode by pressing Shift + v (you will see -- VISUAL -- at the bottom)
- Select all the text on the page and press y. You will see a message "x lines yanked".
- Note press colon ":" and type %!pbcopy. This will copy the entire text to the clipboard.

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