Select visual lines needs to be copied and then use following shortcuts To Copy "*yy To Paste inside VIM "*p To copy outside VIM Since, text is already copied to system clipboard, we can use regular paste method available in OS. For more information use :help register

Introduction Here is how we can profile our VIM to find where it’s spending most of it’s time during during function calls. This happpens when we have tons of plugins and our linting, file editing becomes slow. :profile start vim-markdown.log :profile file * :profile func * " Do whatever makes VIM slow :profile pause " To continue profile use " :profile continue :noautocmd qall! References Stackoverflow Link