On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 8:40 AM, AK <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I often need to copy and paste snippets of text from webpages into gvim. > The easiest way to do this is to highlight and drag and drop text. > Unfortunately, gnome "helpfully" adds all kinds of tags > around the text (when using chrome; adds ^@ chars with Firefox). Other > programs like gedit, abiword, terminal only get the text dropped without > tags. > > How can I get plain text in Gvim? > > I know that I can set up a mapping to strip tags, but I hope there's a > way to do this automatically. > > Personally I find it easier to cut and paste rather than drag and drop. That doesn't require that both windows be visible at the same time, and I feel I have more control over where it goes. Seems more like the "vim way", too.
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