Re: Pasting large text in vim

Was using xsel with macros for that. Good to know. Thanks.

On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 9:24 PM Ven Tadipatri <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Thanks,
> Ven
>
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