[PLUG] vim versus the clipboard

[Ovid]

Google fails me again and I've done a great job of spamming this list
lately.  Thanks for your patience.

I am editing a bunch of files in vim and I need to paste the contents
into an HTML text area.  To do that I have to launch Kate or a similar
text editor to copy stuff directly to the clipboard.  This is seriously
slowing me down.

With gvim, I just did ...

  ggVG and "+y

... to copy the current buffer contents, but that doesn't work when I'm
using vim in a terminal window.  I thought the "*" buffer would work,
but it doesn't seem to.  How can I copy the current vim buffer file
contents to the clipboard (on Fedora Core 2)?

I'm hoping for something similar to "map ,cp :!pbcopy <%<CR>" on Mac OS
X.

Cheers,
Ovid

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