Please note this is NOT related to :paste / :nopaste and the clipboard. I'm talking about copying and pasting entirely within vim (d, y, p).
It is common to copy and paste a block of code from an outer block into an inner block. Unfortunately, the indentation still is at the level of the outer block and I have to indent it afterwards.
What I want to do is to go from:
function foo() {
}
var bar;
var bazz;
to
function foo() {
var bar;
var bazz;
}
In vim what I normally do is:
1) go to the line
2) switch to visual mode
3) highlight the rows
4) dd to delete the lines
5) move the cursor up
6) P to paste
7) enter visual mode
8) highlight the rows
9) >> to indent the lines
I want it to automatically indent to the correct location. It would be a much smoother workflow if I didn't need to re-highlight the rows and then indent them manually. In other words, eliminate steps 7-9.
Anybody know of a way to do this?
You can easily make this a keymap that does auto indenting as part of pasting.
For example,
nnoremap gp p`[v`]=
Breakdown:
p to paste text
`[v`] to select pasted text
= to autoindent selected text