Re: Pasting large text in vim

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> *Igbanam*
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> On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 7:24 PM Ven Tadipatri <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
>     I've been struggling for years with an issue of not being able to
>     paste large amounts of text in vim in a timely manner.  Yeah, it
>     was kind of bad, because I'd lost all hope that there would be a
>     vim upgrade which would support a basic paste command.
>       Before anyone jumps to conclusions, I did try several options -
>     command-shift-V, entering paste mode, tried putting some sort of
>     weird vmap command in my vimrc that called pbcopy. But nothing
>     worked as I just stared at my screen watching text very slowly
>     being pasted.
>      Then, I discovered something that changed my vim experience and
>     just wanted to share that with some of you. It turns out there is
>     a star/asterisk register, which holds the clipboard contents. So
>     you can just press double quote - shift 8 -then p (that's "*p) ,
>     and instantly, all your worries about pasting large text in vim
>     just go away.
>       Now, there is some fine print that I should let people know.
>     Your vim compiler needs to be built with a "+clipboard" option.
>     And of course, finding out your vim compiler options is not common
>     knowledge. But that's easy to check too - just run "vim --version"
>     and pipe it to grep clipboard, and you can see have this amazing
>     feature builtin.
>       Don't take my word for it - try out the star register and just
>     watch how these 3 characters can transform your vim copy-paste
>     experience for large clipboard contents.
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>     Thanks,
>     Ven
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This was such a pleasant surprise when I tried it that I just wanted to
jump in with a "me too" jump on the bandwagon for this hint in the hopes
of generating a mini-band-wagon

effect. Well done. Thanks also for the reminder about the -version
option. It seems it can be done also inside vim with :version. Thanks.

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