perhaps, I'm forgetting something, but these solutions seem overly complicated. I just have this in my .vimrc, and pasting (with formatting), is as simple as c

perhaps, I'm forgetting something, but these solutions seem overly complicated. I just have this in my .vimrc, and pasting (with formatting), is as simple as copying text, going to vim and hitting 'p' in command mode. for middle-click (system) clipboard: :set clipboard=unnamed for ctrl-c (X11) clipboard: :set clipboard=unnamedplus couple caveats: * +xterm_clipboard * 'unnamedplus' is only for >= 7.3.74 see here for more info http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Accessing_the_system_clipboard http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Accessing_the_system_clipboard note: I used unnamedplus for a bit, but found it to be much less desirable than using the unnamed middle-click buffer...YMMV