Via Planet Debian: Enrico Zini posts about using the clipboard with vim Two cool things I learned from Enrico's post:

1. xclip is cool. Especially with combined with zsh. Say you want to have the output of a command printed to the terminal, but also copied to the clipboard. sha1sum * | tee >(xclip)
2. I read the x11-selection help page in vim and discovered that you can access the copy/paste clipboard with the '+' register. Wow! No more pasting in text, having the indentation screwed up, undoing, setting paste mode, pasting again, unsetting paste mode!