Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (2012)

Re:Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (... by JoshMnem on Sunday March 11, 2018 @01:54PM (#16563992)

> On Debian it changes to visual mode.

If you put this in your .vimrc, it should allow you to paste from the system clipboard by pressing space-p:

    let g:mapleader = "\<Space>"
    nmap <leader>p "*p
    vmap <leader>p "*p

(Or use `"*p` or `"+p`, not including the backticks.)

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Re:Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (... by u801e on Sunday March 11, 2018 @02:17PM (#16564091)

That will only work if the xterm_clipboard feature is enabled at compile time with vim.

Edit:

s/clipbaord/clipboard/

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Re:Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (... by JoshMnem on Sunday March 11, 2018 @05:12PM (#16564819)

Oh, I'm not sure how it works on regular Debian. I'm using Ubuntu and it works out of the box here. I'm using neovim now, but it works with regular vim from the package manager too.

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Re:Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (... by u801e on Sunday March 11, 2018 @06:32PM (#16565088)

You can try running:

    :version

within vim to see what compile time features are enabled or disabled. If the list says +xterm_clipboard, then that feature is enabled.

In my experience, terminal vim doesn't have that feature enabled, but gvim does.

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