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babaloo
babaloo

Reputation: 455

Copy and Paste using System clipboard without using Paste mode?

I'd like to be able to copy and paste using the system clipboard without having to toggle paste mode every time. Is there a way to do that?

If it matters at all, I'm using vim from the terminal on a Mac.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 200

Answers (1)

Rory O'Kane
Rory O'Kane

Reputation: 30398

If you mean you want to be able to safely paste or copy raw text in the terminal without having to type :set paste beforehand and :set nopaste afterwards, you have a few options.

  • Set the 'pastetoggle' option. See :help 'pastetoggle', which gives this usage example:

    :map <F10> :set paste<CR>
:map <F11> :set nopaste<CR>
:imap <F10> <C-O>:set paste<CR>
:imap <F11> <nop>
:set pastetoggle=<F11>

  • Create mappings for :set paste and :set nopaste, like in the above code.

  • Install the plugin unimpaired.vim. It provides mappings yo and yO that :set paste, do o or O, and then automatically :set nopaste when you exit Insert mode.

If you mean you want commands like y and p to copy to and paste from the system clipboard by default, then just see the existing question How to make Vim paste from (and copy to) system’s clipboard?

Upvotes: 3

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