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I wish I had seen this five years ago! I'm always doing :set paste and :set nopaste whenever I need to paste text from other sources into vim. Or,

I wish I had seen this five years ago! I'm always doing :set paste and :set nopaste whenever I need to paste text from other sources into vim. Or, rather, I would paste, see the crazy indents and comment characters auto-repeating, and have to decide if I should revert, issue the :set paste, and try again; or if it would be quicker to manually clean up what I just did. I just added the code to my .vimrc. Works like a charm.

JNRowe 8y ago
I’ve been using tpope’s excellent unimpaired.vim¹ to handle toggling paste for me², but will probably switch as vim-bracketed-paste is automatic. I only bring up unimpaired.vim as it provides a whole heap of neat mappings for other toggles you might be manually performing. Most of which follow a simple pattern that makes them easy to remember. I don’t believe any other plugin has increased my productivity as much as unimpaired.vim. Popping up the doc to link to the YOPO note I’ve realised just how many of those next/previous bindings I use as muscle memory. ¹. https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired.git https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired.git ². https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired/blob/master/doc/unimpaired.txt#LC108 https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired/blob/master/doc/unim...
- function_seven 8y ago
  Fantastic. This makes the following (very common) commands so much easier for me: :diffthis :set [no]list :set [no]wrap I know how to map shortcuts, but I never could bring myself to make them, because I've done that too many times in the past and end up with a mish-mash of private mappings that atrophy my vim skills in a way. Hope that makes sense. But this plugin is super consistent internally. Great mnemonics. I don't mind coming to rely on it. Thanks.
  - superflyguy 8y ago
    My solution to the atrophy thing is to keep my vim settings (and bash scripts aliases etc) on gitlab where they're always only one git clone away.
    - dsumenkovic 8y ago
      We are glad to hear that using GitLab helps you with your scripts and settings for vim. That's a really great approach.

JNRowe 8y ago

I’ve been using tpope’s excellent unimpaired.vim¹ to handle toggling paste for me², but will probably switch as vim-bracketed-paste is automatic. I only bring up unimpaired.vim as it provides a whole heap of neat mappings for other toggles you might be manually performing. Most of which follow a simple pattern that makes them easy to remember. I don’t believe any other plugin has increased my productivity as much as unimpaired.vim. Popping up the doc to link to the YOPO note I’ve realised just how many of those next/previous bindings I use as muscle memory. ¹. https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired.git https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired.git ². https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired/blob/master/doc/unimpaired.txt#LC108 https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired/blob/master/doc/unim...

function_seven 8y ago
Fantastic. This makes the following (very common) commands so much easier for me: :diffthis :set [no]list :set [no]wrap I know how to map shortcuts, but I never could bring myself to make them, because I've done that too many times in the past and end up with a mish-mash of private mappings that atrophy my vim skills in a way. Hope that makes sense. But this plugin is super consistent internally. Great mnemonics. I don't mind coming to rely on it. Thanks.
- superflyguy 8y ago
  My solution to the atrophy thing is to keep my vim settings (and bash scripts aliases etc) on gitlab where they're always only one git clone away.
  - dsumenkovic 8y ago
    We are glad to hear that using GitLab helps you with your scripts and settings for vim. That's a really great approach.