Paste in insert mode

Question

Is it possible to paste in insert mode in Vim

User · Answer

You can use this to paste from clipboard with Ctrlv:

set pastetoggle=<F10>
inoremap <C-v> <F10><C-r>+<F10>

And this for yanking visual selection into clipboard with Ctrlc:

vnoremap <C-c> "+y

If you also want to use clipboard by default for classic vim yanking/pasting (y/p) in normal mode, here is a config option that does it:

set clipboard=unnamedplus

With this configs you can e.g. yank first in normal mode and then paste with Ctrlv in insert mode. Also, you can paste text from different vim instances and different applications.

Another option is:

set clipboard=unnamed

Then you will be able to just select something by mouse dragging in your X environment and paste it into vim afterwards. But (for some reason) you won't be able to yank something (y) in Vim and shiftinsert it somewhere else afterwards, which is probably quite limiting.

Vim docs about this: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Accessing_the_system_clipboard

For pasting from custom registers you can follow the other answers :). This answer is mainly about integrating Vim with your system clipboard.

Note that for set clipboard=unnamedplus and set clipboard=unnamed to work, you need to use gvim or vimx (vim-X11): Those are compiled with +xterm_clipboard. You can optionally put this into your .bashrc to alias vim with vimx:

if [ -e /usr/bin/vimx ]; then
    alias vim='/usr/bin/vimx'; # vim with +xterm_clipboard
fi

You can find out whether or not your vim has the +xterm_clipboard in the information provided by vim --version.

User · Answer

No not directly   What you can do though is quickly exit insert mode for a single normal mode  operation with Ctrl-O and then paste from there which will end by putting you back in insert mode    Key Combo  Ctrl-O  p  EDIT  Interesting  It does appear that there is a way as several other people have listed

User · Answer

If you don t want Vim to mangle formatting in incoming pasted text  you might also want to consider using   set paste  This will prevent Vim from re-tabbing your code  When done pasting   set nopaste will return to the normal behavior   It s also possible to toggle the mode with a single key  by adding something like set pastetoggle  lt F2 gt  to your  vimrc   More details on toggling auto-indent are here

User · Answer

You can enter -- INSERT  past  -- mode via    Keyboard combo  y p   or    set paste and entering insert mode   set nopaste to disable    once in -- INSERT  past  -- mode simply use your systems paste function  e g  CtrlShiftv on Linux  Cmdv on Mac OS    This strategy is very usefully when using vim over ssh

User · Answer

While in insert mode  you can use Ctrl-R  register   where register can be      for the clipboard    for the X clipboard  last selected text in X      for the unnamed register  last delete or yank in Vim   or a number of others  see  h registers     Ctrl-R  register  inserts the text as if it were typed   Ctrl-R Ctrl-O  register  inserts the text with the original indentation   Ctrl-R Ctrl-P  register  inserts the text and auto-indents it   Ctrl-O can be used to run any normal mode command before returning to insert mode  so  Ctrl-O   p can also be used  for example   For more information  view the documentation with  h i ctrl-r

User · Answer

Just add map        vimrc inoremap  lt c-p gt   lt c-r gt     restart vim and when press Crtl p in insert mode   copied text will be pasted

User · Answer

Yes   In Windows Ctrl V and in Linux pressing both mouse buttons nearly simultaneously   In Windows I think this line in my  vimrc probably does it   source  VIMRUNTIME mswin vim   In Linux I don t remember how I did it   It looks like I probably deleted some line from the default  vimrc file

User · Answer

Paste in Insert Mode  A custom map seems appropriate in this case  This is what I use to paste yanked items in insert mode   inoremap  lt Leader gt p  lt ESC gt pa   My Leader key here is    this means hitting  p in insert mode would paste the previously yanked items lines

User · Answer

While in insert mode hit CTRL-R  register    Examples        CTRL-R   will insert in the contents of the clipboard     CTRL-R    the unnamed register  inserts the last delete or yank      To find this in vim s help type  h i ctrl-r

User · Answer

If you set Vim to use the system clipboard   set clipboard unnamed   then any text you copy in Vim can be pasted using Shift   Insert  Shift   Insert is simply an OS-wide paste key-combination  Ctrl   Insert is the corresponding  copy

User · Answer

You can also use the mouse middle button to paste in insert mode  Linux only

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