How to turn OFF Auto paste in Vim?
You can change F2 to whatever key you want, and now you can turn pasting on and off easily. To turn off auto-insert of comments, you can add these lines to your vimrc: vim also provides a pasting register for you to paste text from the system clipboard.
How does the bracketed paste plugin in Vim work?
When working inside a terminal the vim-bracketed-paste vim plugin will automatically handle pastes without needing any keystrokes before or after the paste. It works by detecting bracketed paste mode which is an escape sequence sent by “modern” x-term compatible terminals like iTerm2, gnome-terminal, and other terminals using libvte.
Why are tabs inserted in Vim indent pasted code?
See man ssh for more details. The tabs were inserted because you have autoindent turned on and you can disable that behavior by turning off autoindent ( :set noai) before you paste into terminal. The commented lines are produced by auto commenting and can be disabled by turning that off.
Is there a pasting register for Vim clipboard?
vim also provides a pasting register for you to paste text from the system clipboard. You can use “*p or “+p depending on your system. On a system without X11, such as OSX or Windows, you have to use the * register. On an X11 system, like Linux, you can use both.
What does bracketed paste mode do in Vim?
Most modern graphical terminal emulators support a feature called “bracketed paste mode”. Vim can ask the terminal to enable this mode, which, in turn, will surround pasted text with certain escape sequences. Vim can recognize this and turn off wrapping/indenting for the duration of the paste.
Why does Vim indent pasted code incorrectly in Linux?
If you’re using Linux, * is the X/middle-click buffer (the last selected text). Then vim knows it’s a paste. Otherwise vim thinks you have typed the keys being pasted and does its own auto-indentation (on top of your copied indentation) all the way to the end of the paste.