From 4c2d7bac0b563b46ee558f7cb1658520aedfce83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xinqi Bao <xbao@believer.localdomain>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 23:40:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] vimrc: improve clipboard setting

---
 .vimrc | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.vimrc b/.vimrc
index c949e2c..1b4aaa8 100644
--- a/.vimrc
+++ b/.vimrc
@@ -36,8 +36,13 @@ set tags=tags~;,tags~
 "setting gf (go file) path
 set path+=/usr/include/c++/*,include;,includes;,lib;
 
-" Using "+ register for all the yank and paste in vim
-set clipboard=unnamedplus
+" Writes to the unnamed register also writes to the * and + registers. This
+" makes it easy to interact with the system clipboard
+if has ('unnamedplus')
+    set clipboard=unnamedplus
+else
+    set clipboard=unnamed
+endif
 
 call plug#begin()
 
-- 
2.20.1