Bracketed paste

[the-mikedavis]

Pasting with your operating system's paste functionality (Ctrl-v or Cmd-v) is wonky:

• it's slow (paste is slow and halts for some reason #1021)
• it inserts extra brackets if you have auto-pair on (Go: Extra { and ( being created when pasting #2015)
• indentation is wrong (Wrong indentation when copy and paste content #2268)

See also

• Helix buffer becomes unresponsive/slow on paste operation #1484
• Paste large amount of text is extremely slow #1652
• Behaviour difference between Ctrl+V paste and middle-click paste on elementary OS terminal #1963
• When editing HTML automatically inserted tabs are broken. #2236 (comment)

This happens because crossterm does not yet support bracketed paste, so when you paste with OS paste, helix receives each character as if you had typed it yourself. We await a PR upstream in crossterm: crossterm-rs/crossterm#557.

Until bracketed paste is supported, use Space-p to paste from the system clipboard.

[theowenyoung]

When I use a remote server, then I can only use ctrl-v to paste the local clipboard, how to handle this case?

[the-mikedavis]

Yanking to system clipboard across SSH is covered by #247 rather than bracketed paste

[mbratch]

It's more than just wonky. It just doesn't work at all over ssh for any size copy/paste. I can copy and paste using the typical, basic ways to and from any other application... except helix. Whether helix is in insert mode or not, it doesn't work. Not using any command (ctrl-v, space p, mouse right click...). I guess I'm not sure I understand why helix has to be different in this regard.

[the-mikedavis]

That's covered by #247 and not bracketed paste. Bracketed paste support is implemented, merged, and released in v22.08.1.