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From: kashani <kashani-list@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Paste into vim keeping indention or original?
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:05:03
Message-Id: 4D432105.3000904@badapple.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Paste into vim keeping indention or original? by Bill Longman
1 On 1/28/2011 9:08 AM, Bill Longman wrote:
2 > On 01/27/2011 12:53 PM, YoYo Siska wrote:
3 >> BTW, if
4 >> - vim has access to X (you run it on your local machine or from
5 >> ssh -X or something similar)
6 >> - is compiled with X support (check with vim --version | grep +X11)
7 >> - and you :set mouse=a
8 >> then you can paste by middle clicking in vim (not shift-middle click),
9 >> which should paste the text as is...
10 >>
11 >> The difference is that with shift-middle click, or with vim that cannot
12 >> talk to X, the terminal sends the selected text to vim as normal input
13 >> (as if you would type it) and thus its get indented/formated/etc..
14 >>
15 >> If you have mouse=a set and vim can talk to X, when you middle click
16 >> it will ask X for the selection and insert it as is without any
17 >> formatting
18 >
19 > Oooh, aaah. Fireworks. This one's going into my .vimrc file....
20 >
21
22 You might like one too.
23
24 cmap w!! w !sudo tee % >/dev/null
25
26 When you forget to sudo vi you can use w!! which pipes writing the file
27 though sudo. You get some term gunk, but it does work.
28
29 kashani

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Paste into vim keeping indention or original? Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>