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On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 7:24 PM Ven Tadipatri <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
I've been struggling for years with an issue of not being able to
paste large amounts of text in vim in a timely manner. Yeah, it
was kind of bad, because I'd lost all hope that there would be a
vim upgrade which would support a basic paste command.
Before anyone jumps to conclusions, I did try several options -
command-shift-V, entering paste mode, tried putting some sort of
weird vmap command in my vimrc that called pbcopy. But nothing
worked as I just stared at my screen watching text very slowly
being pasted.
Then, I discovered something that changed my vim experience and
just wanted to share that with some of you. It turns out there is
a star/asterisk register, which holds the clipboard contents. So
you can just press double quote - shift 8 -then p (that's "*p) ,
and instantly, all your worries about pasting large text in vim
just go away.
Now, there is some fine print that I should let people know.
Your vim compiler needs to be built with a "+clipboard" option.
And of course, finding out your vim compiler options is not common
knowledge. But that's easy to check too - just run "vim --version"
and pipe it to grep clipboard, and you can see have this amazing
feature builtin.
Don't take my word for it - try out the star register and just
watch how these 3 characters can transform your vim copy-paste
experience for large clipboard contents.
Thanks,
Ven
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This was such a pleasant surprise when I tried it that I just wanted to
jump in with a "me too" jump on the bandwagon for this hint in the hopes
of generating a mini-band-wagon
effect. Well done. Thanks also for the reminder about the -version
option. It seems it can be done also inside vim with :version. Thanks.
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