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On a mac, you can use :r !pbpaste If you're ssh'd somewhere it's a different story. I've seen some things about sharing clipboards across shells, but I've never bothered to set it up. Also, copy-pasta makes for bad code.
:a!
and that will paste with properly formatted text.
"*dd
"*p
"+yy
"+P
:r !cat
(paste your stuff)
ctrl - D
Vim can actually access the system clipboard (and, on Linux, the X clipboard). It's accessed as the * register (or + for the X clipboard). So, for instance: "*dd "*p or "+yy "+P And so on. Very convenient (and also much faster than Ctrl+V). On Ubuntu, this is only available in the Vim provided by vim-gnome or vim-gtk (even when running in a terminal).
When the author says "command line Vim" he means "Vim running in a terminal emulator". And pasting to terminal Vim doesn't suck if your Vim is configured to detect mouse clicks or interface with the system clipboard. Using the system paste shortcut (command- or ctrl-V) in insert mode is not the way to do it.
Unless, of course, the system clipboard is on a different machine than the running copy of Vim. This is useful advice, you really don't have to be so negative about it just because you aren't in a situation where it's applicable.
When the author says "command line Vim" he means "Vim running in a terminal emulator". And pasting to terminal Vim doesn't suck if your Vim is configured to detect mouse clicks or interface with the system clipboard. Using the system paste shortcut (command- or ctrl-V) in insert mode is not the way to do it.
Unless, of course, the system clipboard is on a different machine than the running copy of Vim. This is useful advice, you really don't have to be so negative about it just because you aren't in a situation where it's applicable.
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Sure, that works great if you want to reach for the mouse.
Pretty sure vi does not care about, or is even able to detect, the difference between a middle-mouse and a shift-insert paste.
... and I thought it was how to paste in vim commandline after :
So I often need to find "where is this method defined" across a large project.
yw (yank word to get method into the " register)
:Ack " (ack plugin, paste that default " register)
yay! I found it.
/foo (attempt to find foo in this file. Whoops, not there, where is it!).
:Ack / (last search is in the / register).
There it is!Vim can actually access the system clipboard (and, on Linux, the X clipboard). It's accessed as the * register (or + for the X clipboard). So, for instance: "*dd "*p or "+yy "+P And so on. Very convenient (and also much faster than Ctrl+V). On Ubuntu, this is only available in the Vim provided by vim-gnome or vim-gtk (even when running in a terminal).
It's only available when Vim is compiled with +xclipboard support. I actually found that on an older version of CentOS (v4, I don't know if it's different in newer versions), the 'vim' command and the 'gvim' command were separately compiled binaries so that 'vim' command didn't share the +xclipboard support. On Debian/Ubuntu, I believe they are the same binary.