Copying Vim codes to stack overflow

Question

I am trying to easily copy over codes from vim editor to stackedoverflow or other coding webs.

Vim is easy to yank with highlight+y, but those yanked lines do not get pasted to stackOverflow with Ctrl+V outside of the editor. How can I accomplish the mission?

Most of this websites links such as Copying text outside of Vim with set mouse=a enabled have not worked.

I would think this should be a very straight-forward and easy answer but never found one yet.

Are you using gvim or the terminal vim? If the latter, are you using a graphical terminal emulator such as gnome-terminal? — melpomene, Sep 03 '19 at 19:29
It's the vim that pops up when I type vim in standard linux terminal. I am not sure if it is gnome-terminal or graphical terminal emulator.... — trenta coollime, Sep 03 '19 at 20:00
I saw the thread but could not understand AT ALL. I would sincerely appreciate if someone could give 1-sentence solution for the given problem. — trenta coollime, Sep 03 '19 at 20:02

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 03 '19 at 21:45

First of all I recommend using the vim-highlightedyank plugin because it highlights the every time you copy something.

The copy can be achieved by:

"+yip ................ (copy current paragraph to the clipboard)
"+ ................... the clipboard
yip .................. yank inner paragraph

:%y+ ................. copy the whole file to the clipboard

If you have any selection just type:

"+y

Copying Vim codes to stack overflow

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