07. Copying and Pasting to and from Neovim from external sources

In Neovim (and also in classic Vim) you can copy text from external sources into Neovim, for example from a web page, and vice versa from Neovim out.

Direct copying from an external application to Neovim:

1. Copy text:
2. Open a web browser and select the text you want to copy
3. Press Ctrl+C (or Cmd+C on macOS) to copy.
4. Switch to insert mode in Neovim (insert mode ):
5. Open neovim and load the file - Switch to insert mode by pressing i.
6. Insert text:
7. Press Ctrl+Shift+V (or Cmd+Shift+V on macOS) to insert text into Neovim.

Copying from Neovim to Neovim or outside Neovim to another application:

1: SHIFT + V --> select the whole line - or in Normal mode using: v + right, left, up and down arrow --> select the selected text

1. Copy the selected text:
2. do this in Normal mode with the key: y

3. then paste the text anywhere with CTRL+Shift+V or in Neovi in Normal mode with the p key. Remove marked text:

4. you can remove marked text in Normal mode with: x

NOTE: in Linux for proper functionality I had to install the xclib package for copying from Neovim!