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<div class="entry-content"><p>Copying and pasting between the clipboard and vim has always been a nightmare for me.  You find a big chunk of code you want to copy over to your project, tab over to vim, get into insert mode, and hit Command + v.  What do you get?  A big wall of text that has every line tabbed over.  Definitely not the format you were trying to copy over.</p>

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<p>The easiest fix for this is to set the paste mode before you head into insert the code:</p>

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<p>You&rsquo;ll notice the statusline shows you in <code>PASTE</code> mode and the tooltip shows <code>-- INSERT (paste) --</code>.  Paste in your code and things should be good.  When you&rsquo;re done, revert back with:</p>

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<p>Another option is to set your pastetoggle key.</p>

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<p>The above code will set the F2 key to toggle between paste and nopaste.</p>

<p>What I <em>REALLY</em> want is a way to yy and pp from my system clipboard and have it work in vim.  One large problem with this is that the methods that OS X uses to go to and from the clipboard (pbcopy and pbpaste) break when you work in tmux sessions.</p>

<p>To fix this, we need to install <code>reattach-to-user-namespace</code> from <a href="https://github.com/ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard">ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard</a>.  We can install this threw brew:</p>

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<p>and in our .vimrc, add the following line:</p>

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<p>Now, anything you yank from vim is available in the clipboard, and anything in the clipboard is available to paste in vim!</p>
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