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Cory
Cory

Reputation: 2837

Copy and paste issue with Mac OS X

When I copy a text from a browser and paste it into a file I opened using vi in Terminal, I get the following unformatted text. Why does vi or the Terminal ignoring the newlines?

Instead of getting the following:

" Restore cursor position to where it was before
augroup JumpCursorOnEdit
   au!
   autocmd BufReadPost *
            \ if expand("<afile>:p:h") !=? $TEMP |
            \   if line("'\"") > 1 && line("'\"") <= line("$") |
            \     let JumpCursorOnEdit_foo = line("'\"") |
            \     let b:doopenfold = 1 |
            \     if (foldlevel(JumpCursorOnEdit_foo) > foldlevel(JumpCursorOnEdit_foo - 1)) |
            \        let JumpCursorOnEdit_foo = JumpCursorO

I get this:

" Restore cursor position to where it was before
augroup JumpCursorOnEdit
   au!
      autocmd BufReadPost *
                  \ if expand("<afile>:p:h") !=? $TEMP |
                              \   if line("'\"") > 1 && line("'\"") <= line("$") |
                                          \     let JumpCursorOnEdit_foo = line("'\"") |
                                                      \     let b:doopenfold = 1 |
                                                                  \     if (foldlevel(JumpCursorOnEdit_foo) > foldlevel(JumpCursorOnEdit_foo - 1)) |

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1260

Answers (2)

docwhat
docwhat

Reputation: 11694

Even better than :set paste is to just us the mac clipboard.

If you're using vim 7.3, you can add this to your ~/.vimrc file to get yank (y) and paste (p) to use the Mac`s cut and paste buffer:

if has("macunix")
  if v:version >= 703
    " Default yank and paste go to Mac's clipboard
    set clipboard=unnamed
  endif
endif

You can safely put it in your .vimrc even if you don't have Vim 7.3 -- it just won't work.

You can get the latest vim using homebrew and the homebrew-alt repositories. I recommend it!

Upvotes: 4

jwodder
jwodder

Reputation: 57460

This is the fault of vi, not Mac OS X or Terminal. Vi isn't ignoring the newlines; it's just accumulating indentation. You can fix this by turning autoindent off (:set noai) before pasting and turning it back on afterwards, or, if you're using Vim (which I believe vi is just a symlink to in Mac OS X) you can temporarily turn the paste option on, which disables autoindent along with several other features that can cause problems when pasting text.

Upvotes: 4

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