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diff --git a/software/vim.page b/software/vim.page index 0025f10..dfb6477 100644 --- a/software/vim.page +++ b/software/vim.page @@ -41,3 +41,12 @@ the command I use to grab three lines of context around 'phrase':: :r!grep -A 3 'phrase' ../otherfile.txt +Pasting a lot of text with insert mode if very slow because vim redraws the +terminal for every single character entered (as you would want if you were +actually typing. To paste in the contents of the X11 clipboard you want to use:: + + "*P + +(aka quote, start, uppercase-P) in regular mode. This also solves the +autotabbing problem without ":set paste"! + |