xclip from vim – I often find myself wanting to copy my vim selection to an X application. Vim has an optional feature for this (xterm_clipboard), but most installs come without the feature baked in. I could use the Shift-key when selecting, but that would copy my line numbers as well (and probably do other nasty things), so instead I wrote a li…

.vimrc

fun! Xclip() range
  let l:_a = @a
  exec a:firstline . ',' . a:lastline . 'yank a'
  exec system('xclip', @a)
  let @a = l:_a
endfun

" If you want to map this to Ctrl+c:
" vnoremap <C-c> :call Xclip()<cr>