created 2002 · complexity basic · author RobertKellyIV · version 6.0
If a user would like to paste text into a buffer and have that text indented properly so that the text matches surrounding indents, the following command can be given:
]p
Some users prefer to have all of their text pasted with indenting intact. In order to make this easier, the ]p
command can be mapped to the p
command, so that whenever p
is used, ]p
will be executed. The following can be added to the .vimrc to accomplish this:
:nnoremap p ]p :nnoremap <c-p> p
This simply maps normal mode p
to what ]p
normally does. While ctrl+p
now performs just p
without the indenting functionality.
Correcting bad indent while pasting[]
Unfortunately, the ]p
command will only adjust indent to match the current line, it will not re-indent the pasted text to correct it according to your current indent rules. You can do this as well, using the special mark, `]
. This will jump to the last character of the paste, so you could change the p mapping above to:
:nnoremap p p=`]
This takes advantage of the fact that a paste operation will place the cursor at the beginning of the inserted text, and uses the =
operator to indent the entire inserted text.
References[]
Related plugins[]
- vim-pasta allows for pasting with automatic adjusting of indentation to destination context.