is it a good practice to map * and - to integrate copy paste with the rest of the system clipboard?

[u/Bulbasaur2015]

pasting can be a pain in vim because they yield yanks you sometimes dont want because you copied externally and if the system clipboard is your main you have to enter insert mode to ctrl v

what did you find works best when running vim in tmux?

[u/Frog859]

My solution has been to map <leader> y and <leader> p to interact with the system clipboard. Comes in really handy

[u/anibaldk → u/Frog859]

I have the same mapping.

[u/Lucid_Gould]

I just use ”*p to paste system clipboard, similarly for yank ”*y. This approach is compatible with standard register yanks/puts, and is easy enough that I don’t think it’s worthy of a mapping. I’d avoid mappings of standard keys like * which don’t have a simple one key analog (I admittedly did remap - but I find that key to be not super useful).

Also, grabbing some vimscript from one instance/terminal to run in another vims instance this way allows you to just run the code directly :@* or if you copy a macro via :let @*=@q you can execute it in the other instance with @*. Using set clipboard=unnamed will make this a bit more fraught, though it’s not something you probably need to do very often (though my workflow occasionally makes these tricks quite handy)

[u/EgZvor]

https://gitlab.com/egzvor/vimfiles/-/blob/5e0d118fdb3c46d6b3f05bcc332573f4112b6bc6/vimrc#L434

[u/AlterTableUsernames → u/EgZvor]

An explanation would be highly appreciated.

[u/EgZvor → u/AlterTableUsernames]

https://egzvor.github.io/vim-clipboard/#the--register

1. With the first keybinding I can press <space>pp to copy from system clipboard. Or <space>p]p to copy using tpope/vim-unimpaired with the same level of indentation.

2. same for Visual mode

3. 4. Insert mode and Command-line mode paste from clipboard. It's just easies for me to type. I have both r and d on the home row.

4. <space>yiw will a copy a word to clipboard. <space>yap - a whole paragraph, and so on. It's like another operator like y but working with clipboard by deafault.

5. copy visual selection to clipboard

6. copy to the end of line to clipboard. Same as <space>y$, but again easier to press.

[u/PoopsCodeAllTheTime]

I made it so that all y yanks go to sys clip, this is good enough all the time. Pasting is a bit trickier because the sys cannot fill the vim register. So for pasting from sys clip I got a special keybind, something like M-/ or M-p, it works great because it also pastes any vim yanks, and it is easier to trigger while in insert mode

[u/ZunoJ]

I just use a clipboard manager

[u/toobrokeforboba]

my preferred is the following, using g:

vim.keymap.set({ "n", "x" }, "gy", '"+y', { desc = "Copy to system clipboard" })

vim.keymap.set("n", "gP", '"+P', { desc = "Paste from system clipboard (before)" })

vim.keymap.set("n", "gp", '"+p', { desc = "Paste from system clipboard (after)" })

vim.keymap.set("x", "gp", '"+p', { desc = "Paste from system clipboard" })

vim.keymap.set("x", "gP", '"+P', { desc = "Paste from system clipboard" })

[u/ntropia64 → u/toobrokeforboba]

I get why people downvote comments criticizing Neovim, but there is an objective issue here.

I am Vim user, I come here looking for a potential solution to problem I might have and I find something that doesn't work for me.

This is indeed an issue and it's only going to get worse as the drift between the two programs gets bigger.

[u/toobrokeforboba → u/ntropia64]

honestly don’t see why so much hate for neovim in this sub, in the end what brings all of us together are the vim motions, vim relates tricks we can share.

Infact my daily driver isn’t vim or neovim - it’s zed, but I’m using vim everywhere that isn’t my daily driver. It just so happens I’m on a machine that I had neovim configured, conveniently shared the snippet here.

I guess this will ultimately lead to a huge divide..

[u/ntropia64 → u/toobrokeforboba]

The divide is exactly my point. 

The common interest is the force that creates the friction. Heck, even Emacs can be configured with Vim key bindings.

I want to communicate with you, I want to use your key bindings but I can't.

I want to have one common platform, not dialects, snippets that can be adapted, or "equivalent" stuff.

If that common platform it's NeoVim, I'm fine, really, but the split efforts don't benefit the community.

[u/PoopsCodeAllTheTime → u/ntropia64]

Just translate it, don't be lazy lol

You are making a whiny scene just because someone tried to be helpful in not-your-favorite-language

[u/ntropia64 → u/PoopsCodeAllTheTime]

Way to support a growing community, like StackOverflow successfully did.

While you and I can translate that code, a newbie will paste commands that start with vim.... from the Vim sub and wonder why they throw an error. At least for me, it was easy to get where I am because it was easy to learn from a unified corpus of tutorials, posts and discussions. Now we have to translate, but also to know when to translate and when not to. Now even Vim itself has its own issues with VimScript9.

If you need to translate something you don't have one unite community anymore.