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This simply maps normal mode <tt>p</tt> to what <tt>]p</tt>. While <tt>ctrl+p</tt> now performs just <tt>p</tt> without the indenting functionality.
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This simply maps normal mode <tt>p</tt> to what <tt>]p</tt> normally does. While <tt>ctrl+p</tt> now performs just <tt>p</tt> without the indenting functionality.
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==Correcting bad indent while pasting==
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Unfortunately, the <tt>]p</tt> 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, <tt>`]</tt>. This will jump to the last character of the paste, so you could change the p mapping above to:
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This takes advantage of the fact that a paste operation will place the cursor at the beginning of the inserted text, and uses the <tt>=</tt> operator to [[Indenting source code|indent]] the entire inserted text.
   
 
==References==
 
==References==
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==Comments==
 
==Comments==

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created July 4, 2002 · complexity basic · author RobertKellyIV · version 5.7


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

Comments