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Re: Pasting Text Into Vim

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Post by wmwong »

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!

Same here. You can also do q/ which gives you the history of your searches.

Re: Pasting Text Into Vim

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Post by jyap »

emillon wrote: post #15
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…

> To get out of command history mode, it's the opposite. You can leave command history just by typing , not :q .

... That only applies if you haven't moved your cursor to a line in the command history which doesn't have commands. Otherwise just hitting will run that command line. So it's safer to tell people to enter :q

Re: Pasting Text Into Vim

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Post by AjithAntony »

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

FWIW, The + and * registers appear to behave the same on gvim for windows. I think * is actually expected to represent the system clipboard.

  :help clipboard
Also another AWESOME tip , if you set an "a" among your guioptions, your visual selects and mouse selects automatically get copied to the * register.

  : help quotestar
I realize that X environments mainly do this already, but not the visual select. Most of my editing is through SSH so I don't get to use the gui features much. The only time I use gvim is in windows, so it was pretty revolutionary for me.

Re: Pasting Text Into Vim

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Post by nsheridan »

a3_nm wrote: post #14
slurgfest wrote: post #3

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.

When I read "pasting text into vim", I thought of still another thing: ":set paste".

My .vimrc contains: set pastetoggle=

Life is suddenly easier :)

Re: Pasting Text Into Vim

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Post by q_revert »

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…

another way to get into this mode is to start doing a complex command.. so

:%s/

and when you realise it's not as simple as you first thought.. doing ^f will take you "command line" buffer where you can do all the normal vim commands..

as for copy/paste .. if your vim is compiled with the option "+clipboard" then you can use the "+" register to interact with all your system copy/pasting..

however, what I most frequently end up doing is entering paste mode (:set paste) and just using my terminal emulator's paste buffer.. you can also sync these using tmux's buffers etc if you want, but it's a little less elegant imo..

once you have set/unset paste mode aliased to something sensible it makes the whole process as simple as it gets imo

for your vimrc

nmap p :set invpaste:set paste?

Re: Pasting Text Into Vim

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Post by tux1968 »

nsheridan wrote: post #26
a3_nm wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I read "pasting text into vim", I thought of still another thing: ":set paste".

My .vimrc contains: set pastetoggle= Life is suddenly easier :)

My .vimrc contains :

set pastetoggle=[201~

noremap [200~ :set paste0i

inoremap [200~ :set paste

cnoremap [200~

cnoremap [201~

let &t_ti="\[?2004h"

let &t_te="\[?2004l"

the ti/te sequences are passed from Vim to the client which tells Putty (and others) to bracket all pasting with \e[200~ and \e[201~. The other commands handle these sequences to make pasting happen transparently without having to hit F2 ;o)

Re: Pasting Text Into Vim

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Post by mhd »

natedub wrote: post #12
lloeki wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course it only works for non-terminal vim. Someone may make it work on Mac though by leveraging pb{copy,paste} in some clever way (can't remember the X11 equivalent ATM)

It can work in terminal vim, too. I believe the special + register for the system clipboard is enabled by a compile option, but that may not be entirely accurate. I have Vim 7.3 installed via Macports and it works for me.

Yes, it's the "+clipboard" option (as shown by :version). If you weren't doing macports (or brew) already, the downloadable MacVIM version does include a "Vim" binary that's usable on the commandline. Somewhere in /Applications/MacVIM.app/... (can't check at work). Just symlinking or simply setting `alias vim='` works perfectly.

[MacVim]: http://code.google.com/p/macvim/

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