From: Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Paste into vim keeping indention or original?
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:08:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D42F807.6060408@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110127205345.GA22926@ksp.sk>
On 01/27/2011 12:53 PM, YoYo Siska wrote:
> BTW, if
> - vim has access to X (you run it on your local machine or from
> ssh -X or something similar)
> - is compiled with X support (check with vim --version | grep +X11)
> - and you :set mouse=a
> then you can paste by middle clicking in vim (not shift-middle click),
> which should paste the text as is...
>
> The difference is that with shift-middle click, or with vim that cannot
> talk to X, the terminal sends the selected text to vim as normal input
> (as if you would type it) and thus its get indented/formated/etc..
>
> If you have mouse=a set and vim can talk to X, when you middle click
> it will ask X for the selection and insert it as is without any
> formatting
Oooh, aaah. Fireworks. This one's going into my .vimrc file....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-28 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-27 19:07 [gentoo-user] Paste into vim keeping indention or original? Mark Knecht
2011-01-27 19:22 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2011-01-27 19:28 ` Mike Gilbert
2011-01-27 20:11 ` Petri Rosenström
2011-01-27 20:53 ` YoYo Siska
2011-01-28 17:08 ` Bill Longman [this message]
2011-01-28 20:03 ` kashani
2011-01-28 22:42 ` Bill Longman
2011-01-28 20:20 ` David Abbott
2011-01-27 22:38 ` James
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