On 27/05/09 06:17, Mahurshi Akilla wrote:
>
> Under my current linux xterm settings, in vim, shit+insert generally
> helps paste things from the clipboard, whether i am in escape mode or
> insert mode.
>
> However, pressing shift+insert only pastes "<S-Insert>" in gvim. Is
> there a way to change this behavior and have it actually print the
> contents of the clipboard?
The clipboard (the one which you access with Edit => Cut, Edit => Copy
or Edit => Paste) is known in Vim as the "plus" register (not to be
confused with the "star" register, which is the same under MS-Windows
but not under X11).
Any register can be accessed in a number of ways, and not only through
the menus; if you don't specify a register, you get the "default" or
"unnamed" register, which is actually named register "double-quote".
In Normal mode:
"+P
put the clipboard before the cursor
"+p
put the cursor after the cursor
"+yy
yank [count] lines (default: the current line) into the clipboard
"+y{motion}
"+y{object}
{Visual}"+y
yank the text moved over, or the text object, or the Visual selection,
into the clipboard
"+dd
"+d{motion}
"+d{object}
{Visual}"+d
the same, but delete instead of yanking
:[range]put +
put the clipboard after the [range] (default: current line). Use 0
(zero) as the range to put before the first line, or $ (dollar) for
after the last line.
:[range]yank +
yank the [range] (default: current line) into the clipboard
:[range]delete +
delete into the clipboard
The ex-commands :put, :yank and :delete can be abbreviated to :pu :y or
:d respectively, or to anything in-between (but :p is :print, not :put).
:let @+ = <expression>
:let <variable> = @+
You can also use @+ in expressions and ":let" statements, just like any
String variable. It means the clipboard.
:redir @+
" (do something)
:redir END
capture in the clipboard whatever the "do something" command(s) will
display at the bottom of the screen. For instance, by using :version as
the "do something" command, capture the details of your present Vim
version for pasting into an email (such as a bug report).
All this was for Normal mode. Now, in Insert (or Command-line) mode, you
can insert the contents of the clipboard at the cursor by hitting Ctrl-R
followed by +
All these work for other registers too, for instance the registers a to
z (using a letter instead of +) which are only used when you explicitly
tell Vim to use them.
Of course, unlike other registers, the clipboard is only available if
you are using a Vim version compiled with +clipboard, either in GUI mode
or in a terminal which has access to the clipboard (such as an xterm or
the Windows console, but not the text-only Linux console accessed by
Ctrl-Alt-F1 to Ctrl-Alt-F6 [Go back to X with Ctrl-Alt-F7]).
See
:help copy-move
Best regards,
Tony.
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