Re: Pasting large text in vim

On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:23:47 -0400
Ven Tadipatri <vtadipatri@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> Now, there is some fine print that I should let people know. Your vim
> compiler needs to be built with a "+clipboard" option.

This is the sore point. For people who use Vim over ssh, this is not an
option (ssh -X is crappy at least in my experience). OSC52 is a godsend
for this, but it only works for copying not pasting (for security
reasons). I've been dealing with it with ':set paste!' & <C-S-v>, but
as you said, for large text that's problematic.

So what I tend to do is: I send the clipboard content to a temp file
over ssh and then use remote Vim's local register to copy from that temp
file. It's a rare enough case that this doesn't bother me anymore (*he
says through gritted teeth*).

xclip -o | ssh enan@remote.org 'cat > tmp.txt' # from local shell
# then copy content from tmp.txt to real-file.txt with Vim

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Enan

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