Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Paste into vim keeping indention or original?

[kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net>]

On 1/28/2011 9:08 AM, Bill Longman wrote:
> 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....
>

You might like one too.

cmap w!! w !sudo  tee % >/dev/null

When you forget to sudo vi you can use w!! which pipes writing the file 
though sudo. You get some term gunk, but it does work.

kashani