Re: Copying and pasting text to Vim

On 14.01.14 07:12, shawn wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Erik Christiansen
> > 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.

Ah, that's very nifty. Thanks.
I've mapped it to ^P, which wasn't doing anything useful.

nnoremap ^P "+p
inoremap ^P ^["+p^Mi

The latter handles the case where we happen to be in insert mode, and
also allows an i or o to put the paste on a new line, rather than
grafting it onto the one the cursor is on.

One peculiarity I notice is that "+p picks up clipboard contents
provided by cursor highlighting in another window - up until the
clipboard is filled by Vim, e.g. with "+y}. After that, new cursor
highlighting operations fail to change the contents of "+p, which
remains stuck on the old contents, even after half a dozen attempts.
(Perhaps I need to move to a later Vim. I'm on 7.3 with patches 1-496)

Erik

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