Table of Contents Cut, Copy and Paste using the computer keyboard Vim and the clipboard From Vim to the Clipboard From the Clipboard to Vim Some key shortcuts in gVim Cut, Copy and Paste using the computer keyboard Everybody knows how to use the keyboard combinations Ctrl-c, Ctrl-x and Ctrl-v in Windows and Linux (or Cmd-c, Cmd-x and Cmd-v in macOS) to copy, cut and paste text across applications.