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 copy text to X primary selection only when visual mode is started with the mouse?
At the moment, if I use Visual mode, whenever I select a block of text using the keyboard it ends up on my X primary selection (ie the clipboard that is filled using the mouse). Even if I just select ...
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How to exit insert mode if pressing escape merely types “^[”?
I have neovim 0.4.2 running in a session of kiTTY 0.17.4 on OSX. I have pasted a long url while in insert mode.
After doing this, every time I type BKSPC vim adds ^? to my document. Every time I type ...
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Cursor position after pasting
I believe the default behaviour in vi(m) for pasting (p) or (P) was to leave the cursor at the current position as before pasting, and in order to paste a register and have the cursor be at the end of ...
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how to delete a paragraph respecting the folds?
I have a file (filetype=javascript), this is how it looks without folds:
and with folds:
I can move with the { and } motions skipping the empty lines inside the folds (thanks to these question and ...
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How do I enable copy/paste between vim and tmux in both two directions?
In a tmux session, I'm running vim in one pane and a terminal in another pane.
Recently, I figured out how to enter visual mode in tmux but it doesn't help much now.
Can I yank selected text from a ...
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Copy all text in Vi and then paste it to another application on another system
I connect to Linux server via SSH using Putty terminal.
I open a file with Vim and press ggVGy in order to select all text and copy it.
But when I try to paste the copied text to Windows Notepad, it ...
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Vim adding blank line after each line when pasting from clipboard
When I copy-paste multiple lines from clipboard into my vim, it inserts a blank line after every line. But when I copy in into a text editor first and then copy-paste it into vim, the blank lines are ...
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Delete/yank into multiple registers at the same time?
Is there a way to have y/d/c/x/s output into multiple registers at the same time - for example, "a as well as the system clipboard "+? I can do "aY"+Y obviously, and with Y it's ...
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losing random chars when pasting (insert mode + :set paste are set)
When pasting a huge text (10,000 lines, around 500KB) in vim (yes, I'm using insert mode and :set paste), I lose random characters every few lines. I thought it could be a plugin, so I tried starting ...
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Problem pasting text with brackets when using auto-close functions/plugins
It's nice to have an auto-close plugin for brackets and quotes like coc-pairs. However, when I paste text from outside into vim insert (ctrl-C, ctrl-shift-v), the text seems to be pasted character-by-...
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Preview previously yanked text before put
I know that previous yanks are kept in numbered yank registers, a preview available with :registers. However this requires to keep a mental model which yank went where, with these numbers ever ...
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Move/copy range to start of current line
I just learned about the shortcuts that allow you to manipulate ranges, e.g. :+5,+10co. to copy after the current line.
I wondered if there is a way to copy and move at the start of the current line?
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Update OS enviroment variables from inside VIM
I use vim inside tmux over an ssh session and I often run into the issue where the $DISPLAY variable gets changed, screwing up my copy-paste.
When I log in, $DISPLAY gets assigned to something new: ...
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Disable paste mode entirely
I get what paste mode does for you, but I have never found it particularly useful. I would like to completely deactivate it. I don't see an option to do so when looking at :help paste. However, I ...
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Yanking a visual block with word wrap enabled is shifted
Say I have a file with the following contents (on a single line):
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed augue ligula, venenatis et orci non, convallis congue nunc. Nam eleifend ...
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linux: yank to clipboard, cut to primary
I'm using neovim. I want to map the 0 register to the system clipboard and the unnamed register to the system primary (mouse middle click). Is it possible? I can map the unnamed register to primary ...
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How to bind <C-U> to <Cmd><BS> in vimrc?
I understand that <C-W> is backward-kill-word and I have bound this to shiftBS and it works.
But now I want to bind <C-U> to cmdBS. Is this possible? If so, how can I do this?
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Automating a yank and paste operation
If I want to copy and paste the next 5 lines and paste those 5 lines below the next 5 lines, I would do 5yy5jp. How would I use command to say something like 5yyp to paste the next 5 lines and ...
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Quick paste via single keybind
As I understand, the default cursor looks like this: ā block. Currently I have these related settings:
set guicursor=c-n-i-v:ver25-blinkoff0
And
ver25
makes the cursor look and behave as if only ...
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Blockwise pasting from "+ register not working
UPDATE: I run an X server (XQuartz 2.7.11) on MacOS, which I forward via ssh to any Linux machine I use. The problem seems to be that under XQuartz, the "+ register does not support blockwise yanking/...
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IPython %cpaste command freezes in Terminal mode
I try to use IPython's %cpaste to paste the clipboard content (Python code) to my Terminal which is launched via Neovim's terminal mode.
However, if I paste long lines of code, it freezes, and does ...
