在VIM中获取突出显示的副本并粘贴

Question

I'm trying to make the switch to VIM, but there's one feature I'm really lacking and that's the highlight copy - pasting. Additionally, I am really lost with the "p" and "y" commands, I can't seem to copy or paste anything properly. I've set "clipboard=unnamedplus" to use the OS clipboard. Can you give me some pointers, or possibly a solution to my problems. It'd be nice if I could Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V things and be able to copy highlighted text to my clipboard and paste from my clipboard.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

By default, Vim yanks text and stores it in the " register; after yanking, you can see it by typing the :reg command.

However, you can control which register you want to yank or paste. For example, "aY yanks/copies the current line into register a , "cp puts/pastes the content from register c .

In Vim you have more than one "clipboard", you can "copy" many things in different "clipboards" and choose the right one to paste from. It is Vim's great advantage, isn't it?

If you want to use ctrl-c to copy selected text to system clipboard, you could:

"easier copy/paste to/from clipboard
vnoremap <C-C> "+y
nnoremap <Leader>p "+P

But I wouldn't use CV to paste, as it is already assigned to the blockwise selection feature.

Answer 2

To correctly paste from outside of terminal (possibly multiple indented lines of code) into Vim, add this to your ~/.vimrc :

set pastetoggle=<F2>

Then press F2, go to insert mode (you should see -- INSERT (paste) -- ) and Ctrl+shift+v to paste. Then again F2 to quit insert mode.