Pasting Text Into Vim

#1

Post by whereiswaldo » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 1:55 AM UTC

Pasting Text Into Vim
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Re: Pasting Text Into Vim

#2

Post by antidoh » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 3:26 AM UTC

"I'd like to paste yanked text into Vim command line."

While the top voted answer is very complete, I prefer editing the command history.

In normal mode, type:

q:

This will give you a list of recent commands, editable and searchable with normal vim commands. You'll start on a blank command line at the bottom.

For the exact thing that the article asks, pasting a yanked line (or yanked anything) into a command line, yank your text and then:

q:p

(get into command history edit mode, and then (p)ut your yanked text into a new command line. Edit at will, enter to execute.

To get out of command history mode, it's the opposite. In normal mode in command history, type:

:q

Re: Pasting Text Into Vim

#3

Post by slurgfest » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 5:06 AM UTC

The title "pasting text into vim" is kind of wrong. This isn't really about pasting text into vim, that is a very easy thing you learn in your first hour of vim (press p or at worst "+p).

It is about the more meta activity of pasting text (e.g. representing a vim command or an argument to a vim command) into the vim command line.

Re: Pasting Text Into Vim

#4

Post by kevinburke » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 5:58 AM UTC

You can also yank from Vim to the system clipboard with

"+y

Took me a year or so to learn that one

Re: Pasting Text Into Vim

#5

Post by herouic » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 5:59 AM UTC

tmux buffers

Will solve your copy and paste problems across all UNIX applications.

Thank you Mr. Marriott. Great software.

Re: Pasting Text Into Vim

#6

Post by india » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 6:00 AM UTC

antidoh wrote: post #2

"I'd like to paste yanked text into Vim command line." While the top voted answer is very complete, I prefer editing the command history. In normal mode, type: q: This will give you a list of recent commands, editable and searchable with normal vim commands. You'll start on a blank command line at the bottom. For the exact thing that the article asks, pasting a yanked line (or yanked anything) into a command line, ya…

Oh this is what that is! I accidentally reach this mode now and then and wonder how I got there and what it does. I must be accidentally pressing q: instead of :q ! This is great and useful. Thanks!

Re: Pasting Text Into Vim

#7

Post by srijan4 » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 6:12 AM UTC

kevinburke wrote: post #4

You can also yank from Vim to the system clipboard with "+y Took me a year or so to learn that one

Or, you can add this to your vimrc to always yank to system clipboard:

    set clipboard+=unnamed

Re: Pasting Text Into Vim

#8

Post by antidoh » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 6:18 AM UTC

india wrote: post #6

antidoh wrote: post #2

"I'd like to paste yanked text into Vim command line." While the top voted answer is very complete, I prefer editing the command history. In normal mode, type: q: This will give you a list of recent commands, editable and searchable with normal vim commands. You'll start on a blank command line at the bottom. For the exact thing that the article asks, pasting a yanked line (or yanked anything) into a command line, ya…

Oh this is what that is! I accidentally reach this mode now and then and wonder how I got there and what it does. I must be accidentally pressing q: instead of :q ! This is great and useful. Thanks!

That's exactly how I found it, by accident. I think a lot of people do.

Re: Pasting Text Into Vim

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Post by arocks » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 7:00 AM UTC

Not to start an editor war or anything. But a comparable feature set can be found in Emacs[1].

[1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Reg...

Re: Pasting Text Into Vim

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Post by ibotty » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 7:06 AM UTC

herouic wrote: post #5

tmux buffers Will solve your copy and paste problems across all UNIX applications. Thank you Mr. Marriott. Great software.

doesn't really help with content in vim's registers...

(but you are right, tmux is great)