If you find yourself highlighting text in Vim with your mouse to copy and paste it elsewhere, stop. There's a better way, using the yank command, to copy text into your clipboard on macOS or Windows.
TL;DR
John"*yYou may be familiar with the yank command: y to copy selected text, yy to copy the current line. To copy to the system clipboard, we'll use the same command with a few extras modifier to select the correct register.
In Vim, you choose a register using ".
For both Mac and Windows, you can select the system register by using *.
Enter visual mode by hitting v. Select the text you want to copy, then type:
"*yNow go paste freely!
So you've started using Kubernetes secrets. At some point, you'll probably want to see the secret in plain text, either to validate it or use it in another context.