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55 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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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 copy to system clipboard using Mosh + Tmux?
I've set vim.opt.clipboard = "unnamedplus" to copy to/paste from the system clipboard. However, I noticed that the behavior differs whether I'm using nvim in my local machine, a remote ...
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Pasting from vim to an ipython terminal
I have an open ipython terminal open, and I'd like to paste the visual selection to it, with prepending "%cpaste" and appending "--"
This is what I came up with
function! ...
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"^[[201~" character being pasted at the end of file
I'm trying to copy-paste by hand this file, but whenever I paste the contents in vim the last line shows this weird character at the end of the line ^[[201~.
My guess is that it's one of those wrong ...
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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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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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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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While copying a file in netrw, why should I be in the directory where the file is located?
In netrw, I want to copy a file /dir/subdir1/file.txt to /dir/subdir2. For that, I do the following:
I mark the file /dir/subdir1/file.txt
I navigate up directory and mark /dir/subdir2/ as target
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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 to paste line but preserve the cursor position?
I want to achieve following. Imagine I have a line of code, say:
std::cout << "STEP #0" << "\r\n";
Now I want to paste it somewhere else, but I want to stay cursor in ...
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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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Problems using Vim to yank to clipboard
I can't seem to yank to clipboard within Vim on Ubuntu (Windows Subsystem for Linux). I am pressing "+y and it's giving me the regular X lines yanked, instead of X lines yanked into "+ to ...
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Pasting into vim over ssh repeats or drops 6 characters at random
When I SSH into a remote Ubuntu container on a particular system and open vim, I cannot paste consistently. Say I copy the string abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz to my clipboard. If I open vim, enter ...
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How to override neovim paste implementation?
I wanted to add some handler that is triggered whenever a paste happened. From what I know, there is no such a thing like autocmd for paste action. I have look into some possible solution such as ...
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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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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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Copy text from terminal and paste to Vim while preserving text color
Is there a way to copy colored text from terminal and paste it as colored into vim?
I am on MacOS, using iTerm2 Build 3.4.4beta3, and the following Vim version:
% vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (...
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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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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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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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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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Paste clipboard linewise if it has new lines, or characterwise if it does not
I would like to remap all paste commands to take these special actions before pasting the system clipboard "+ register:
if the register is not "+, paste according to default behaviour
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Errors when copying and pasting text using gVim under Windows 11
I have a reoccurring problem when using Ctrl c and Ctrl v between two files opened in gVim Version 9.1.
When I copy a portion of text from file 1 and then paste it in file 2 I get various "extra&...
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Multiline graphical table to seperate lines
I have a (very large) variable width table, something like this:
1
-----------------
2 | 3 | 4 |
| | ---- | ...
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Vim visual block copy don't paste in KDE konsole
Selecting by visual line mode and copying (V and y) in vim in rxvt-unicode or in gnome-terminal and pasting in another tab of that terminal with Shift + Insert works well.
But trying to do the same ...
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Yank across multiple lines with single line breaks
I can use the following to yank text inside of quotes across multiple lines, separate that text by a single new line, and be able to paste it characterwise.
let @q = '' | *g/^/exe 'norm! "Qyi&...
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Behavior of copy/paste with system register + has suddenly changed
(Vim version and system info follows at bottom)
Never had any problems copying to the system register with "+y before, nor pasting from that register into another application or into a terminal. ...
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Pasting from system clipboard adds an unwanted new line
On windows, using neovim, with clipboard=unnamedplus , when I paste from the system clipboard using p or :put , it will always paste in a newline , even if the content of the clipboard has no newline. ...
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Why does <esc> on empty, indented line, jump to beginning?
I'm trying to do something very simple, enter normal mode and ALWAYS be able to somehow put the normal mode cursor where it was in insert mode, whether through a mark, or otherwise.
I'm doing this ...
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Copy to android system clipboard in nvim from termux
I use Neovim on termux on android 11
I commonly use :y to yank/copy text to nvim clipboard
Then paste it to another files
Recently I've tried using helix-editor(hx) looks and feels so similar to ...
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How to search for yanked text in a macro?
How do I search for yanked text in a macro properly?
I tried the following:
qq (start a macro)
yi" (yank text inbetween ", let's say the yanked text is foo)
/
press ctrl + r
" (I ...
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What's controlling Vim paste behaviour?
What's controlling Vim paste behaviour via Vim over ssh using putty with right-click paste set to Linux host?
To start we have:
VIM - Vi IMproved 9.0 (2022 Jun 28, compiled Mar 27 2023 00:00:00)
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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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Copy text from all folds, excluding titles
How do I copy all lines from all folds, excluding the fold titles?
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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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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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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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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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How to paste append and verical aligment multiple lines text in vim?
Is there any convenient way to format text block-1 to block-2 by vim?
block-1
#include <stdio.h>
#include "math.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <...
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Yanking to system clipboard does not work
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, I have +clipboard and +xterm_clipboard in my vim --version, and I have set set clipboard=unnamedplus in my .vimrc.
For some reason, yanking still does not copy to the system ...
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Creating vimrc kills my plugin
I have the following ~/.vim/filetype.vim:
augroup filetypedetect
au BufRead,BufNewFile *?Script.sml let maplocalleader = "h" | source /home/gergely/HOL/tools/vim/hol.vim
" recognise ...
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Why does PASTE mode mess up my text sometimes?
If I go to this web page on my MacOS, hit Command+A to highlight all the text, Command+C to copy it, open vim, enter insert mode, and paste with Command+V, it looks like:
If I do exactly the same ...
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