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Uwe Müller
Uwe Müller

Reputation: 61

Escape Quote sign for vimrc

I tried to map <Leader> p (in insert mode) to Ctrl+R " command in my vimrc. However, as the " sign is the comment sign for vim, I just can't get it to work

I tried: inoremap <Leader>p <c-r>" and inoremap <Leader>p <c-r>\" , but both of them don't really give me the register conntent of ". What can I do to fix this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 264

Answers (1)

builder-7000
builder-7000

Reputation: 7657

From Vim's manual (:help map-comments):

It is not possible to put a comment after these commands, because the ' " ' character is considered to be part of the {lhs} or {rhs}.

So in your case there is no need to escape the " character. Thus the first map that you provided:

inoremap <Leader>p <c-r>"

should work. For example, consider the text:

one two three

typing yy in normal mode will copy the line. Then type A to go to the end of the line in insert mode. Typing <leader>p results in:

one two three    one two three

If this does not work verify that you are really typing the <leader> key (use :echo mapleader to see the leader key). Also check that the contents of the " register are indeed one two three (to do this use :register ").

Upvotes: 3

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