gvim: passing the visually-selected text to the command line

Question

I use gvim to store recipes of commands that I will execute, depending on output. Currently, I select the text in gvim and paste the commands into a terminal console, but I bet

Answer 1

If you are using the vim GUI, you can do set guioptions+=a. This way, any highlighted text inside gvim in visual mode gets pasted to a clipboard.