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In my init.vim I have this section:
let mapleader=";"
" copies to system clipboard
vnoremap <leader>y "*y
" pastes from system clipboard
vnoremap <leader>p "*p
copying to my system keyboard works fine, however, when pasting using the vnoremap motion it either inserts an empty line or the letter e never what's copied in the clipboard.
however, when I do the full motion of "*p it pastes fine. Is there something I'm missing?
I would do:
let mapleader=";"
" copies to system clipboard
vnoremap <leader>y "*y
nnoremap <leader>y "*y
" pastes from system clipboard
vnoremap <leader>p "*p
nnoremap <leader>p "*p
Remark: copying to the system clipboard and pasting from the system clipboard can be achieve with the following option:
set clipboard=unnamed
Or in Lua for Neovim:
vim.opt.clipboard = "unnamed"
v since I was pasting in normal mode XD. Also I've changed my init.vim -> init.lua to vim.keymap.set({"n", "v"}, "<leader>pr", "\"*p") thanks for your help @Vivan :)
Nov 13 at 11:37
:set clipboard=unnamed option that makes that by default Vim paste from and to the * register.
Nov 13 at 11:45
vim.opt.clipboard = "unnamed"
Nov 14 at 12:10