Neovim paste without overwriting register w/ Lua

Question

So I know with vimscript you could make paste not overwrite your register with this:

vnoremap p pgvy

And I've tried a few ways to get this to with with Lua such as:

vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('n', 'p', 'pgvy', { noremap = true })

But this doesn't work.

How can I get this kind of functionality with a Lua config?

Answer 1

I believe you should do:

vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('v', 'p', 'pgvy', { noremap = true })

The first argument is the mode:

• n for Normal (equivalent to nnoremap)
• v for Visual (equivalent to vnoremap)

But as Ben suggested you could also do:

vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('v', 'p', 'P', { noremap = true })