{"id":317,"date":"2013-02-28T01:51:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T01:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech.moosaico.com\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2013-03-04T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T10:42:09","slug":"vim-safe-copy-paste-without-bad-indentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejoyofstick.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/28\/vim-safe-copy-paste-without-bad-indentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Vim safe copy paste without bad indentation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Horror<\/h2>\n

One thing that was always great with Linux desktop X11 (and continued with Ubuntu 12.10) was copying text with a mouse selection and just pasting it with the middle button. That’s why I became horrified when it started to not work with Vim!<\/p>\n

I was evaluating a Perl Module<\/a> and when I copy\/pasted a block of an example code this happened<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Borked<\/a><\/p>\n

It has to be a way to have a clean copy\/paste again!<\/p>\n

The Solution<\/h2>\n

Fortunately Vim has the notion of paste and so has a mode to activate it and ignore indentations and other features. You just activate it with :set paste<\/code><\/p>\n

\"normal-set-paste-500\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"paste-mode-500\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Change to insert mode<\/p>\n

\"paste-mode-insert-500\"<\/a><\/p>\n

and now just paste the text the way it was supposed.<\/p>\n

\"Paste<\/a><\/p>\n

Hurray! Now press Esc<\/code> and get back to our helpful indentations with :set nopaste<\/code>.<\/p>\n

\"paste-set-nopaste-500\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"normal-set-nopaste-500\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Less typing, may I ?<\/h2>\n

Of course there’s a pragmatic way of doing all these. We can define a keyboard key to just make the copy\/paste a safe operation. I’m using key F12<\/code>.<\/p>\n

\r\n:set pastetoggle=\r\n<\/pre>\n
In insert mode you can toggle the paste mode so you don’t despair with the wrong indentation. Add it to your .vimrc<\/code><\/p>\n
Another way it’s to just paste what you want into the line you are at in visual mode.<\/p>\n
\r\nmap  :r! xsel\r\n<\/pre>\n
xsel<\/code> is a command line X11 tool to manipulate its “clipboard”.
\nThis mapping reads into Vim the output of xsel<\/code> which is the clipboard copy buffer. I’m using this one.<\/p>\n
You may need to install it but it’s simple<\/p>\n
\r\n$ sudo apt-get install xsel\r\n<\/pre>\n
Conclusion<\/h2>\n
Vim customization and plugins broke a plain simple copy\/paste. However we got a no brain and fast solution with our F12<\/code> key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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