Questions tagged [cut-copy-paste]
Questions about cutting, copying, and pasting text. In Vim, "cut" is also called "delete", "copy" is also called "yank", and "paste" is also called "put".
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How to clear the uppercase registers?
The uppercase register has this nice characteristic of allowing appends to them.
However, every time I use them to yank a series of text, when it's time to paste them, I can see the old text from when ...
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How can I copy the whole number under the cursor?
Lets say I have a list like this:
marcus1235lt
jonas3456lt
^Cursor is here
thomas345pt
how can I yank the number under the cursor, in this case 3456, without getting any characters?
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`Cmd+V`/`Ctrl+V` pasting has an extra new line
In init.vim I have:
set clipboard^=unnamed,unnamedplus
In order to ensure text is yanked into the system clipboard.
In Neovim, I select the lines in line mode (V) and copy them with y:
a
b
c
In a ...
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Copying non-consecutive selected lines in visual mode
Basically I want to select and copy a bunch of non-sequential lines (some lines only partially) from different locations of a code, in a way that each yanked line is appended to clipboard register so ...
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Yank non-consecutive lines into the register?
I'm surprised this hasn't been asked yet, but how do I copy non-consecutive lines into the buffer at once?
For example, let's say my file looks like this:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
What commands can I use ...
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Always duplicate yanked text to system clipboard
I'm using neovim 0.8.2
Is there a way to automatically mirror last yanked text to system clipboard, regardless of which register I used to yank it to? So if I run something like "ayiw I will have ...
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How to yank a word with its surrounded quotes?
Is there an easy vim keyboard shortcut to yank a word, including its surrounding quotes?
For instance I would like to yank 'my_word' from the statement below:
tmp = my_func(arg1, 'my_word')
How can I ...
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How to paste below, not to the right nor to the left
Question
I think you see the problem... How can I paste directly below? Is there a way?
Setup
I have this table and I want to copy/yank the 3 × | in visual block mode and then paste it:
| sign | ...
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Report more than 200 lines cut/pasted -- Vividly?
I have a text document where I frequently move/cut large blocks of text.
Every 2-3 months I inadvertently cut or paste a huge number of lines (60,000 today) and discover the error hours, or even days, ...
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What are the different behaviors of `daw` and is there a difference between a `word` and a `WORD` (based on docs)?
Consider the sentence
The sky is very blue today.
Let's investigate what happens when we use the vim command daw with the cursor placed at different positions.
Cursor at any character of "blue&...
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Why doesn't the dot command work after pasting in visual mode?
1. Why doesn't this work?
If my text file is:
aaa
test bbbb test
test bbbb test
test bbbb test
I can yank aaa, select bbbb in visual mode, and type "0p, to replace it with aaa, with the idea of ...
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How do I use variables with the delete command? (i.e., how to expand/reference variables for command arguments?)
I'm using variables for line numbers, and I want to delete a range of lines using these variables. How do I do that?
let x = 5
let y = 20
" I want to delete the range of lines from x ...
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How can I create a keybinding that pastes in the terminal in bracketed paste mode, but only if the shell supports it?
Xterm has a feature where if you put in .Xresources
XTerm.vt100.translations: #override \
Shift Ctrl<Key>V: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD)
then ctrl+shift+V will paste from clipboard.
I notice ...
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How to repeatedly yank whole buffer without losing the yanked contents
I select the whole contents of a source buffer: ggVGy.
Then I move to another buffer, let's say D1.
I update the the whole contents of the destination buffer with the yanked text: ggVGp.
Now, if I ...
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Neovim saving yanked text to file with TextYankPost
I'm trying to write some functionality in neovim to make it possible to yank + paste between neovim instances. The approach is to intercept yanked text and write it to a temporary file, then remap ...
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Vim mapping: Copy whole line X lines up/down and paste it X lines down/up
I find myself doing the following very often: xkyyxjp (where x is a number).
I copy a whole line x lines up, and then I paste it x lines down (and vice versa); and so I wanted to make a map so I can ...
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How to select all text and delete in vi?
Is it possible to select all the text and delete it it in vi other than hitting backspace?
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ci) - also delete the surrounding parens?
I use ci) and ci] quite a lot to change what happens in between the parens or brackets.
Is there a way to remove everything including the parens or brackets?
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How to yank from EOL, including the last character?
In normal mode, I want to set a mark (ma) and then yank until the end of the line, including the last character ($ and y`a). But $ doesn't include the last character. What is the solution?
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How to stop (neo)vim from yanking text on pasting over selection?
I want to make Neovim stop yanking the text I paste over into my register (mapped to system clipboard with vim.opt.clipboard = 'unnamedplus'), eg
If I have the text:
asdfghjkl
asdfghjkl
asdfghjkl
and ...
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The most lazy way to call the vim-copied content into bash
Setting in my .vimrc:
set clipboard=unnamedplus
Supporting in my vim:
vim --version | grep clipboard
+clipboard +jumplist +popupwin +user_commands
+ex_extra -...
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Copy text from all folds, excluding titles
How do I copy all lines from all folds, excluding the fold titles?
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How to delete till a specific word?
I have a bunch of text, say:
This is some sample text. I would like to delete this text.
The question is how do I delete till a specific word. If my cursor is at the start of the above sentence, and ...
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How to cut a markdown link on the same line e.g. from `[` to `)`?
If I'm anywhere on a line that contains e.g.:
[text1](link to text1)
How do I cut from [ to ) ?
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Yank list of lines into a register in vimscript
I am writing a function and I wish to yank a range of lines into a register.
The line that I cannot fix is the following:
let @" = getline(l:line_in,l:line_out)
where l:line_in and l:line out ...
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Copy content inside brackets and the word in front of bracket (i.e. a text object for function calls)
Quite often I copy or remove content inside brackets d% or y%.
MyAwesomeClass(
///content
)
But this way I get:
(
///content
)
Is there a way to copy word in front of the bracket too? So that ...
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Yank paste not working after trying to map clipboard to register
I tried making clipboard work with yank paste. And now for some reason normal V+y and p doesn't work as intended anymore.
for example:
{
pb.push(to_string(pb.top()).size());
pb.pop();
}
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On Windows, putting lines with P results in the * register at the end of current line instead of the " register and shifting the current line down
I use the same configuration on Windows as I do on Linux. It works normally on Linux but on Windows (vim and gvim) I am getting this odd behavior when putting lines with P:
Steps:
I yank a line with ...
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Paste command to command mode instead of insert mode
I observed a difference in behavior between Vim and Neovim: When pasting
a :-prefixed command in normal mode, Vim will enter command mode
whereas Neovim will enter insert mode. More precisely:
Given ...
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How to replace line with the yanked one multiple time?
In many cases, I have to replace a line by another in multiple places.
I can yank my desired line, go do the replacement location, do a pdd, move on, and of course I don't have the same line available ...
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Pasting via vim doesn't paste whole text and gets stuck in the insert paste mode
For a while now, I've been dealing with a problem where when pasting a large amount of text, such as the code in this gist, into a file via vim, only part of the copied text gets pasted, then stops ...
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How can I select all non-lowercase multiline blocks which follow a keyword?
I'd like to copy these to a file, but in a speculative future case,
I might want to delete them. I might need to find a regex to substitute
intervening data with a single blank line.
The highlighting ...
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How can I send just-yanked text to the clipboard?
If I've already yanked 37 lines, is there a way to send them to the clipboard without having to select them again?
I need to move those yanked lines into a GUI application.
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How to copy between two '##'
In vim, there is a way to yank between two quotations by using yi'. And there is a way to yank between two square brackets by using yi].
I want to do this between two ##:
some_text
## Point #1 --> ...
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somehow paste to random location ... tell vim to always ignore any roller actions from mouse middle roller button
I have been using vi or vim for many years however recently ( past year or two ) when I paste some highlighted text vim seems to paste highlighted text ( more often than not ) to random location in ...
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vim copy/paste from clipboard while keeping indentation
I am using Putty on Windows to connect to a Linux server.
On the Linux server I am using vim to edit code files.
I am using my mouse to select an area to copy and then right click to paste the copied ...
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How do I yank to a custom clipboard, but put normally?
Whenever I yank (y) in vim, I'd like to trigger a custom clipboard script. This works fine. However, I also want the put (p) functionality to continue working as normally, ie. pasting from the normal ...
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How to replace text with clipboard content in VsCode using VsCodeVim?
I am using vscode + vim. Consider a common scenario where I have to yank/delete some text from one place and replace it with some text anywhere else. But as I need to replace I have to first delete ...
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What happens when giving a backwards range (to yank) in Vim?
If you have:
minimum
working
exampl[e]
with [] representing your cursor, and issue :.,-2y, Vim will tell
you "Backwards range given" and prompt you to swap. If you don't swap it
seems to ...
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Store the current filename in a given register
When I exchange with colleagues about the code, when I refer to given functions, I like to also mention the file.
Since this exchange does not usually take place within vim, I usually copy them out ...
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How to remember and recall cursor position?
Imaging I'm editing some code, and I found a few words that I would like to paste at the current cursor position elsewhere in the file. I will go to them, yank them, but then how do I return back to ...
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Yanking results displayed in status line
After pressing <C-g> in normal mode, prints useful information in the status line. How can I yank this text?
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Indentation is messed up when pasting code
I find that the default indentation support for pasting is lacking.
For example ,
If I use ]p for the following(copied using V) :
try:
l=None
if 1:
df = ...
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Is it possible to keep folds saved when I copy from one file to another?
I've recently discovered I can fold blocks of code with Vim by using zf.Then I can open and close them with zo and zc... I've also seen this solution on StackOverflow that has a vimrc configuration ...
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Output of paste into vim truncated
I am having issues with pasting text from the clipboard into vim (v7.4) on an HPC cluster using Centos, which I have logged into using MTPuTTY. I still get the same error when I'm logging in via ...
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Copy to clipboard and cut at the same time?
I often copy to clipboard into other programs (changed to <leader>y)
is there a way to copy to the clipboard and delete once copied in one command?
For example, I want to press <leader>y, ...
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Duplicate selected lines programmatically
I'm creating a Vim script and a critical part of it is duplicating the selected lines. To duplicate lines, I have this mapping which works as intended:
vnoremap <Leader>d :copy '><CR>
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Stop Vim from yanking visual selected text
Let's say I have a file like this
(abc)
(123)
(456)
I want to yank abc and paste it in place of 123 and 456.
I would yi) on the first line. Then go down a line and paste it with vi)p.
But for the 456,...
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Delete javascript backtick string
In Javascript you can write multiline strings like this:
s=`hello
world`
I would like to delete/yank the inside of the string by pressing di` etc., however that doesn't work. What do I have to add to ...
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How can we get the third mouse option with cut, copy paste in neovim?
I am new to Neovim and using the default terminal in
Ubuntu for Neovim.
With the default terminal, we can click the right mouse and get the options for cut, copy and paste.
How can I get this type of ...
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