I often have to paste some stuff on a new line in vim. What I usually do is:
o<Esc>p
Which inserts a new line and puts me in insertion mode, than quits insertion mode, and finally pastes.
Three keystrokes. Not very efficient. Any better ideas?
Shortly after :help p it says:
:[line]pu[t] [x] Put the text [from register x] after [line] (default
current line). This always works |linewise|, thus
this command can be used to put a yanked block as
new lines.
:[line]pu[t]! [x] Put the text [from register x] before [line]
(default current line).
Unfortunately it’s not shorter than your current solution unless you combined it with some keyboard map as suggested in a different answer. For instance, you can map it to any key (even p):
:nmap p :pu<CR>
Options:
1) Use yy to yank the whole line (including the end of line character). p will then paste the line on a new line after the current one and P (Shift-P) will paste above the current line.
2) Make a mapping: then it's only one or two keys:
:nmap ,p o<ESC>p
:nmap <F4> o<ESC>p
3) The function version of the mapping (unnecessary really, but just for completeness):
:nmap <F4> :call append(line('.'), #")<CR>
" This one may be a little better (strip the ending new-line before pasting)
:nmap <F4> :call append(line('.'), substitute(#", '\n$', '', ''))<CR>
:help let-register
:help :call
:help append()
:help line()
:help nmap
You can paste a buffer in insert mode using <C-R> followed by the name of the buffer to paste. The default buffer is ", so you would do
o<C-R>"
I found that I use <C-R>" very often and bound that to <C-F> in my vimrc:
inoremap <C-F> <C-R>"
This still uses three keystrokes, but I find it easier than Esc:
o<Alt-p>
Since you're in insert mode after hitting o, the Alt modifier will allow you to use a command as if you weren't.
Using this plugin: https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired
]p pastes on the line below
[p pastes on the line above
advantages:
works on all yanked text (word, line, character, etc)
indents the pasted text to match the indentation of the text
around it
2 keystrokes instead of 3 and much "easier" strokes
fast
Personally I've nmapped Enter (CR) like this:
nmap <CR> o<Esc>k
...based on this Vim Wikia article.
This way I can make newlines directly from normal mode, and combining this with wanting to paste to a newline below I'd do:
<CR>jp
You could also skip k in the nmap above, depending on what functionality you prefer from Enter, so it would just be <CR>p.
I've also imapped jj to Esc, which would also assist in this case. Esc is way too far away from the home row for how significant it is in vim.
Not shorter than the other solutions, but I do think it feels less clunky than some of them, and it has other uses too.
If you wanted to stay in the insert mode, you can do o ctrl+o p
o – insert mode and go to the new line
ctrl+o – run a single command
like in normal mode
p – paste
It's three keystrokes but you stay in insert mode and also o ctrl+o is quite fast so I personally treat it as 2.5 keystrokes.
If you're copying a whole line then pasting a whole line, use Y to yank the line or lines, including line break, in the first place, and p to paste. You can also use V, which is visual line mode, in contrast with plain v for visual mode.
I have mapping inoremap jj <ESC>. So it is easy to insert new line with ojj and Ojj and then p.
so ojjp paste new a newline. it have one more stroke then o<esc>p but ojjp is easy for me.
I found an elegant solution to this. If you are putting the yank register in your OS's clipboard (which is great anyway), with
set clipboard+=unnamed
than you can do o<Ctl-v>.
Besides being fewer strokes, this improves on both o<Esc>p and :pu because it preserves indenting: both of the other options start you at character zero on the new line.
Caveat is that this may or may not be OS dependent. All I know is that it works on recent version of OS X, but clipboard is just one of many ways to get yank in the OS clipboard.
If you want to paste in a new line and still keep indentation, create this mapping:
nnoremap <leader>p oq<BS><Esc>p
Prerequisite: you have leader mapped and you have set autoindent in your .vimrc.
Explanation: a new line is created with 'o', 'q' is typed and then back-spaced on (to keep indentation), and 'esc' brings you back to normal mode where you finally paste.
If you also want to end in insert mode, it is possible to paste while in insert mode using CTRL-R ". https://stackoverflow.com/a/2861909/461834
Still three keystrokes, but no escape, and you save a keystroke if you want to end in insert anyway.
I use the following mapping in my Neovim config:
nnoremap <leader>p m`o<ESC>p``
nnoremap <leader>P m`O<ESC>p``
A little explanation:
m`: set a mark in the current cursor position.
o<Esc>p: create a new line below and paste the text in this line
O<Esc>P: create a new line above and paste the text in this line
``: put the cursor in the original position
See :h mark for more information about marks in Vim.
This solution only seems to apply when the block of copied text starts on a new line (as opposed to grabbing a snippet of text somewhere within a line), but you can always start your copy on the last character you want to grab, then navigate to the last character at the end of line prior to the start of your desired copy block. Then when you want to paste it, place the cursor at the end of the line under which you want your text to be pasted and hit p. If I haven't screwed up the explanation, this should provide the effect you're looking for.
Related
Based on the idea of quick command in insert mode I want to insert my OS clipboard when I am in the insert mode. To make that happen as I want, I have to add a whitespace in the inoremap call, but I do not know how?
This is done with
inoremap VV <Esc>"+gP
Using this:
"vim" is in the OS clipboard
Typing in insert mode "work smart with VV"
leads to the result
work smart withvim
What I want is a whitespace between with and vim
work smart with vim
Any suggestions?
Your issue is caused by the P in "+gP and by the fact that leaving insert mode moves the cursor one character to the left, on the <space>.
P pastes before the cursor so your mapping pastes before the <space>. Changing the P to p should "fix" your problem, in a superficial way.
Here is a more solid alternative that inserts the content of the clipboard register right after the cursor without leaving insert mode:
inoremap VV <C-r>+
Well… what about simply using <C-r>+?
Working around a side effect (here, pasting after the cursor) is not the same as avoiding that side effect (here, not leaving insert mode to begin with). Guess which one is the right approach? ;-)
Use
inoremap VV <Esc>"+gp
P places the clipboard before cursor, p after cursor.
Option 1.
inoremap VV <C-R><C-o>+
Ctrl-R tells vim to insert the contents of a register, and + is the OS clipboard register. It inserts the clipboard contents as if you typed them. The additional <c-o> makes the register contents get inserted literally, so that things like <esc> or ^H (backspace) aren't interpreted like you typed them, but are inserted as text.
Option 2.
inoremap VV <C-o>"+gp
C-o tells vim to go to normal mode for just one command, so you don't need to add <Esc> at start, or i at the end.
I am Vim newbie, and I'm using MacVim on OSX Snow Leopard. One of the most common actions I have to take is to move the cursor to a new line but also move the text after the cursor to the new line. I know that pressing 'o' in normal or visual mode moves the cursor to a new line and switches the mode to insert.
What I'd like to do is move the cursor to a new line, and move the text after the cursor to that new line as well, preferably staying in the normal mode? Is this possible? How can I accomplish this task?
If the cursor is on a <space> as in ([] marks the cursor):
lorem ipsum[ ]dolor sit amet
the simplest is to do r<CR>, that is "replace the current character with a linebreak".
Otherwise, use #knittl's solution.
So you want to move everything in the current line, which comes after the cursor to the next line? Read: insert a line break??
(move cursor)
i (or a)
<return>
<esc> (or ^C)
To map this sequence of keystrokes to a single key, follow #thb's suggestion and use the :map command:
:map <F2> i<CR><ESC>
:map <F2> i<CR>
This keeps vi in insert mode.
As I answered in this post, How do I insert a linebreak where the cursor is without entering into insert mode in Vim?.
Please try Control + j.
The code below achieves the same behavior as "normal" editors (for the lack of better terms on the top of my mind) except that you'd have to press "enter" twice instead of once.
I also wanted to get rid of the space if it's right before my current character.
There might be an easier way and I totally welcome edits :-)
" in ~/.vimrc or ~/.vimrc.after if you're using janus
nnoremap <cr><cr> :call ReturnToNewLine()<cr>
function ReturnToNewLine()
let previous_char = getline(".")[col(".")-2]
" if there's a space before our current position, get rid of it first
if previous_char == ' '
execute "normal! \<bs>\<esc>"
endif
execute "normal! i\<cr>\<esc>"
endfunction
This remaps pressing enter twice to going to insert mode, placing a carriage return and escaping.
The reason I'm using this mapping (enter twice) is because I was used to this functionality with other text editors by pressing a enter; also, typing enter twice is fast.
Another thing that I found useful in this context was allowing vim to move right after the last character (in case I wanted to move the last character to a new line). So I have the following in my ~/.vimrc as well.
set virtualedit=onemore
Note that I'm using nnoremap (normal mode non-recursive) instead of map (which is VERY dangerous) (check this out for more information on the differences http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/chapters/05.html)
You need to map some keys to do a line break at the cursor,
I found the following mapping easy to use, just go to your vimrc and add this line:
:map <silent> bl i<CR><ESC>
to assign a line break at cursor to "bl" combo
Say, I have the following lines:
thing();
getStuff();
I want to take getStuff() using the yy command, go forward to thing(), placing the cursor on (, and paste via the p command, but since I yanked the whole line, p will paste getStuff() right back where it was.
I know you can first move the cursor to the beginning of that getStuff() line and cut the characters from there until its end via the ^D commands—then p will do what I want. However, I find typing ^D to be much more tedious than yy.
Is there a way to yy, but paste the line inline instead?
The problem is that yy is copying the entire line, including the newline. An alternative would be to copy from the beginning to the end of the line, and then paste.
^y$
^ Go to the first character of the line.
y Yank till
$ End of line.
// Credit to: tester and Idan Arye for the Vim golf improvements.
Use yiw ("yank inner word") instead of yy to yank just what you want:
yy is line-wise yank and will grab the whole line including the carriage return, which you can see if you look at the unnamed register ("") in :registers which is used as the source for pastes. See :help "":
Vim uses the contents of the unnamed register for any put command (p or P)
which does not specify a register. Additionally you can access it with the
name ". This means you have to type two double quotes. Writing to the ""
register writes to register "0.
An additional benefit to yiw is that you don't have to be at the front of the "word" you are yanking!
One way to simplify the routine of operating on the same text patterns
is to define mappings that mimic text-object selection commands.
The two pairs of mappings below—one for Visual mode and another for
Operator-pending mode—provide a way to select everything on the current
line except for the new line character (al), and everything from the
first non-blank character of the current line through the last non-blank
character, inclusively (il).
:vnoremap <silent> al :<c-u>norm!0v$h<cr>
:vnoremap <silent> il :<c-u>norm!^vg_<cr>
:onoremap <silent> al :norm val<cr>
:onoremap <silent> il :norm vil<cr>
Thus, instead of using yy to copy the contents of a line that
is to be pasted character-wise (and not line-wise), one can then
use the yal or yil commands to yank, followed by the p command
to paste, as usual.
A less efficient, but simple method:
v to highlight the word(s),
y to yank the highlighted word(s),
p (at the end of the line) you want to paste
Is there a simple way (i.e. without writing a script or elaborate keymap sequence) to Yank a group of lines and leave the cursor wherever the Yank was performed, as opposed to at the start of the block?
According to VIM's help: "Note that after a characterwise yank command, Vim leaves the cursor on the first yanked character that is closest to the start of the buffer." Line-wise seems to behave similarly.
This is a bit annoying for me since I tend to select a large region from top to bottom, Yank, and then paste near or below the bottom of the selected region. Today I'm setting a mark (m-x) just before Yank and then jumping back, but I suspect there may be a different Yank sequence that will do what I need.
I've searched SO and the web for this numerous times. There is so much existing "VIM shortcuts" material to wade through yet I've not found a solution to this one yet.
Thanks in advance.
Not quite answering your question, but perhaps '] would solve your problem?
'] `] To the last character of the previously changed or
yanked text. {not in Vi}
If you're using visual blocks (v), then after yanking the block you can use gv to re-select the same block (which also moves your cursor position back to where it was before yanking). If you then press Esc, the block is un-selected without moving the cursor.
Also of interest might be the ctrl-o command in visual block mode, which jumps between the start and end of the selected block.
If yanking in visual mode, you could also use '> or `> to go to the last line/character of the just yanked visual selection. In this context this is essentially the same as '] and `] which is apparently not supported e.g. in VsVim.
:y3 will yank three whole lines from current current line, If you know exactly how many line to yank, this command is very handy. :help :yank for details.
:%y will select the whole buffer without moving the cursor,
like ggvG$y, without the flash of selection highlight and modifying the "* register.
I use this insert mode map:
function! SelectAll()
%y*
endfun
imap <expr> <F3> SelectAll()
ps: if you prefer <C-V> to paste(outside vim), use %y+
check https://stackoverflow.com/a/1620030/2247746
I'm not sure sure if YankRing has changed since the vmap ygv<Esc> solution was posted but that didn't persist for me after adding it to my .vimrc. YankRing actually overwrote it.
Here's my solution in .vimrc.
function! YRRunAfterMaps()
vmap y ygv<Esc>
endfunction
I don't know what happened in the meantime but in IdeaVim the accepted answers don't work as I'd like them to. (Don't move the cursor on yank)
For me what did the trick was just setting a mark before yank and go to that afterwards.
vmap y mxy`x
How do I duplicate a whole line in Vim in a similar way to Ctrl+D in IntelliJ IDEA/ Resharper or Ctrl+Alt+↑/↓ in Eclipse?
yy or Y to copy the line (mnemonic: yank)
or
dd to delete the line (Vim copies what you deleted into a clipboard-like "register", like a cut operation)
then
p to paste the copied or deleted text after the current line
or
Shift + P to paste the copied or deleted text before the current line
Normal mode: see other answers.
The Ex way:
:t. will duplicate the line,
:t 7 will copy it after line 7,
:,+t0 will copy current and next line at the beginning of the file (,+ is a synonym for the range .,.+1),
:1,t$ will copy lines from beginning till cursor position to the end (1, is a synonym for the range 1,.).
If you need to move instead of copying, use :m instead of :t.
This can be really powerful if you combine it with :g or :v:
:v/foo/m$ will move all lines not matching the pattern “foo” to the end of the file.
:+,$g/^\s*class\s\+\i\+/t. will copy all subsequent lines of the form class xxx right after the cursor.
Reference: :help range, :help :t, :help :g, :help :m and :help :v
YP or Yp or yyp.
Doesn't get any simpler than this! From normal mode:
yy
then move to the line you want to paste at and
p
yy
will yank the current line without deleting it
dd
will delete the current line
p
will put a line grabbed by either of the previous methods
Do this:
First, yy to copy the current line, and then p to paste.
If you want another way:
"ayy:
This will store the line in buffer a.
"ap:
This will put the contents of buffer a at the cursor.
There are many variations on this.
"a5yy:
This will store the 5 lines in buffer a.
See "Vim help files for more fun.
yyp - remember it with "yippee!"
Multiple lines with a number in between:
y7yp
yyp - paste after
yyP - paste before
I like:
Shift+v (to select the whole line immediately and let you select other lines if you want), y, p
Another option would be to go with:
nmap <C-d> mzyyp`z
gives you the advantage of preserving the cursor position.
You can also try <C-x><C-l> which will repeat the last line from insert mode and brings you a completion window with all of the lines. It works almost like <C-p>
For someone who doesn't know vi, some answers from above might mislead him with phrases like "paste ... after/before current line".
It's actually "paste ... after/before cursor".
yy or Y to copy the line
or
dd to delete the line
then
p to paste the copied or deleted text after the cursor
or
P to paste the copied or deleted text before the cursor
For more key bindings, you can visit this site: vi Complete Key Binding List
I know I'm late to the party, but whatever; I have this in my .vimrc:
nnoremap <C-d> :copy .<CR>
vnoremap <C-d> :copy '><CR>
the :copy command just copies the selected line or the range (always whole lines) to below the line number given as its argument.
In normal mode what this does is copy . copy this line to just below this line.
And in visual mode it turns into '<,'> copy '> copy from start of selection to end of selection to the line below end of selection.
Default is yyp, but I've been using this rebinding for a year or so and love it:
" set Y to duplicate lines, works in visual mode as well.
nnoremap Y yyp
vnoremap Y y`>pgv
I prefer to define a custom keymap Ctrl+D in .vimrc to duplicate the current line both in normal mode and insert mode:
" duplicate line in normal mode:
nnoremap <C-D> Yp
" duplicate line in insert mode:
inoremap <C-D> <Esc> Ypi
1 gotcha: when you use "p" to put the line, it puts it after the line your cursor is on, so if you want to add the line after the line you're yanking, don't move the cursor down a line before putting the new line.
For those starting to learn vi, here is a good introduction to vi by listing side by side vi commands to typical Windows GUI Editor cursor movement and shortcut keys. It lists all the basic commands including yy (copy line) and p (paste after) or P(paste before).
vi (Vim) for Windows Users
If you would like to duplicate a line and paste it right away below the current like, just like in Sublime Ctrl+Shift+D, then you can add this to your .vimrc file.
nmap <S-C-d> <Esc>Yp
Or, for Insert mode:
imap <S-C-d> <Esc>Ypa
I like to use this mapping:
:nnoremap yp Yp
because it makes it consistent to use alongside the native YP command.
I use this mapping, which is similar to vscode. I hope it is useful!!!.
nnoremap <A-d> :t. <CR>==
inoremap <A-d> <Esc>:t. <CR>==gi
vnoremap <A-d> :t$ <CR>gv=gv