On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Erik Christiansen
<dvalin@internode.on.net> wrote:
> On 14.01.14 11:36, Sam Bituser wrote:
>> Copying and pasting text from outside of the editor. E.g. modifying an HTML
>> page by swapping odd bits of text from another document. It just feels
>> clunky to me and I often find myself using eclipse instead.
>
> For me, Vim works just like any other application, as far as pasting
> goes. If the other app is a GUI, then with the mouse:
>
> a) Highlight the text to be copied - one word or a thousand.
> b) Move cursor over the Vim window and whack the middle mouse button.
>
> Vim just stays in insert mode, so alternation between typing and pasting
> is seamless. Going back to edit the imported cruft costs one Esc, as
> always. I'm having trouble seeing any clunkiness there, other than
> having to reach for the mouse. ;-)
>
> OK, I tend to leave autoindent on, and so have to set "paste" in Vim
> beforehand, to avoid staircase text while pasting, and then set nopaste
> afterwards. To minimise keystrokes, I have in .vimrc:
>
> set pastetoggle=<F12>
Though, if you use the native xclipboard (and have the feature - I
think it's called 'clipboard') then you can just do "+p and not have
to worry about toggling anything or 'staircase' issues.
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