Getting Vim to work with the X11 clipboard can be a struggle, at least when you like to run Vim in a terminal. gvim, the GTK2 version of vim, always has clipboard support. But, if you like to use Vim from a terminal like I do, you will have to check for X11-clipboard support.

From the console, type:
% vim --version

Using multiple windows in VIM is a great way to do side-by-side editing, comparison and cut-and-paste (yank-and-put). Unlike other editors, you can do all this with your hands on home row. Learning to use multiple windows will also help you make better use of the built in :help, and also makes it easy to learn a powerful file comparison tool: vimdiff.

So at about 5:15 pm I was talking to Ford online and he mentioned they were in the office and that I should come over, I said OK. So as if the world decided it didn't want me to go, it starts HAILING and RAINING making rivers for me to cross, instantly. At that point I drug my floormate along for the trip. We finally made it there but we were soaked. Ford forgot to mention there would be a camera. So I walked right into Loren filming and attempting to catch everything on film.

You could read VIM's built in help page:
:help ctrl-v

But I will skip to the good parts: