Evan H. Carmi wrote:
hey all,
i am wondering how to copy through windows and than paste into vim with
a keyboard command.
for example: i am running FF and i copy some text, when i go into vim I
don't know how to put (paste) that text without right clicking and
selecting paste. the
:p
command doesn't work and seems to be put what is in the vim clipboard (i
don't think clipboard is the correct term for the place where vim has
yanked data. what is it?)
peace, Evan
In Vim, the system clipboard is known as "register plus". On non-Unix
versions, "register star" is synonymous with it. So, just prefix your P
(put) command with "+ (double-quote plus) or, on non-Unix systems, by "*
(double-quote star) and voilà! The clipboard contents get patsed.
Conversely, "+y or "+d do a yank (copy) or delete (cut) to the clipboard:
"+p paste before cursor
"+P paste after cursor
"+y copy (visual area, or takes a postfix telling Vim
"what" to copy)
"+d cut (visual area, or with a postfix)
:echo @+ show the contents of the system clipboard _without_
pasting
etc.
And BTW, it's p (put after cursor) or P (put before cursor), _without_ a
colon prefix; or you can youse the :pu[t] command, which takes the
register-name after the command, and accepts a line number:
:put +
pastes the clipboard after the current line, and
:0put +
pastes it at the top of the file (or use ":$put +", without the quotes,
to paste at the bottom).
And the correct name (in Vim lingo) for where Vim stores data between a
yank and a put if you don't explicitly specify a register name, is --
the unnamed register.
See ":help change.txt", and, in particular, ":help registers".
HTH,
Tony.
