[StavrosK]

Interesting coincidence, I was pasting a production certificate into Vim the other day and it contained "kj", which escaped the editor and ate a few letters until it reached an "i" and continued pasting.

It took production down for 30 minutes until I noticed it. Remember, kids! ":set paste".

[irahul]

> Remember, kids! ":set paste".

Or get used to ctrl-[ which is easier to type than Esc, doesn't skip events(like ctrl-c), and doesn't interfere with anything.

[nakkiel]

I usually use `paste` but I sometimes catch myself formatting just-pasted chunks of code. I'll watch out for this.

[jnetterf]

"+p will paste the system clipboard.

[nakkiel]

Nah. I've had terrible and inconsistent results with this. I literally hate this thing so much that I've stopped using it altogether. It's most likely due to me not figuring out exactly what's going on but I can't be helped at this point.

[StavrosK]

No way!

I just tried it, it doesn't work :( That's too bad.

[tybenz]

That's for GUI Vim. If you're using Terminal VIM you can install this plugin: https://github.com/kana/vim-fakeclip

[StavrosK]

Thank you, I'll try it right away!

[dllthomas]

Or :.!xclip -o

[SEMW]

Are you on a mac and using the system default vim? If so, Apple cripples it to not be able to directly access the system clipboard -- use homebrew's vim or macvim instead.

[StavrosK]

No, I'm on Ubuntu, it just looks like this method doesn't work with terminal vim. Your sibling comment looks like it has a solution, though!

[irahul]

I am not sure which version of vim you are on. I have been using clibpoard paste for a long time in Ubunut. Do a ":version" in vim and check if it's compiled with +clipboard. If it is, then it should work.

Also, you can have this in your vimrc:

  set clipboard=unnamedplus

And then your vim copy-paste will be in sync with system clipboard(no need for +p or +y).