gvim: Easy copying into system clipboard

Question

I am using gVim on Ubuntu 10.10. I want to copy (yank) text to the system clipboard, so that the copied text is available in other applications.

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Answer 1

I have the very same idea as you, but I did it for years.

nnoremap yy yy"+yy
vnoremap y ygv"+y

Note that now yy command does two things: First it yank to register as normal, and then it yank to " register (system clipboard). The y command does the same thing. This is because I want to keep the multiple clipboard functionality of Vim.

For pasting from system clipboard, I used to have noremap gp "+p (global pasting), but now I use the excellent plugin Yankring.