[Q/A] - Advice on 'copy' functionality in insert mode. (interested to know how others do it)

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[Q/A] - Advice on 'copy' functionality in insert mode. (interested to know how others do it) #1039

Open JasoonS opened 6 years ago

JasoonS commented 6 years ago

Hi, I'm reasonably new to Vim, and using this plugin to learn vim (and hope to use this plugin permanently moving forward!)

The thing that is annoying me/giving me issues, is that I often want to copy text while in insert mode. Is the preferred method really to go into/out of normal-mode do the paste and back into insert mode?

(for example doing this (bellow) is by switching modes all the time seems tedious to me, and there can be more complicated uses too. [I'm not doing anything meaningful, just giving an example]) vim-mode-paste sillyedit

mlncn commented 6 years ago

Similarly, it would be nice for easy inter-operation with documents outside atom to be able to allow ctrl-c to be un-mapped from its vim-mode-plus:reset-normal-mode and core:cancel etc. keybindings, so ctrl-c and ctrl-p can work as normal (without requiring all keystroke bindings to be done manually).

t9md commented 6 years ago

@JasoonS I'm not sure if I understand your issue correctly.

To temporary escape insert-mode and back to insert-mode after executing one normal command you can use ctrl-o(vim-mode-plus:activate-normal-mode-once) keymap in `insert-mode.
To copy and paste without entering normal-mode, use Atom's native command such as core:copy, core:paste.