Re: Copying and pasting text to Vim

On 14.01.14 08:11, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2014-01-15 00:35, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > > > set pastetoggle=<F12>
> >
> > 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
>
> Just for the record, while I agree that ^P is somewhat useless in
> normal-mode, ^P is pretty useful in insert-mode. It (and its
> complement ^N) offers completions of all the matches of whatever
> you've typed so far. I use it multiple times per day and would hate
> to lose that functionality.

Tried that once, but forgot about it again. (It's easier to remember
stuff from 40 years ago, somehow.) I take your point, so better put them
on Alt- :

nnoremap <A-p> "+p
inoremap <A-p> ^["+p^Mi

Erik

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