[tasuki]

> My main complaints about vim/emacs in the past was at the sheer complexity of getting something that should not even be a concern (clipboard integration) working properly

What problems have you encountered? I have the following shortcuts in my .vimrc:

    vnoremap <Leader>y "*y
    noremap <Leader>p "*p
    vnoremap <Leader>c "+y
    noremap <Leader>v "+p

Space + y/p is the copying/pasting from/to the "primary selection" (the mouse middle click). Space + c/v is copying/pasting from/to the regular ctrl+c/ctrl+v clipboard.

This... just works for me?

[urxvtcd]

My solution is to have this snippet in my vimrc. Don't ask me why this works. It's been years, and I had no issues with it.

    " System-agnostic setting making the unnamed clipboard register act like
    " clipboard in any other editor. Copy with y commands, and paste with p or P.
    if has('unnamedplus')
        set clipboard=unnamedplus,unnamed
    else
        set clipboard+=unnamed
    endif

Beside this, there is also the issue of setting paste when pasting in insert mode.