vimperator copying and pasting

Question

i cant Ctrl C or Ctrl V to copy and paste respectively.

i know that if i want to do so in firefox vimperator i'll have to add these lines

-- noremap

noremap

however, i'm not sure exactly what the file is or where i can find it to place that code in

Answer 1

Vimperator uses Ctrl-V to tell it to pass the next command straight to Firefox. If you go Ctrl-V Ctrl-C that copies, and Ctrl-V Ctrl-V will paste. However, you may be better off remapping if you don't need Ctrl-V passthrough for anything else.

Answer 2

vimperator reads file ~/.vimperatorrc during startup. Create/modify that file at will.

Answer 3

:mkvimperatorrc will create the initial ~/.vimperatorrc file, then you can manually add anything to it.

:source ~/.vimperatorrc allows you to re-read it, without restarting Firefox (:restart).

You might want to use the X clipboard instead (via Shift-Insert (Paste) and Shift-Delete (Cut)).

Also, Y will yank any selected text the vimperator way (both to clipboard and X11 selection).

You might be interested in my vimperatorrc: http://github.com/blueyed/dotfiles/blob/master/vimperatorrc

Answer 4

The following worked for me, but I have no idea why as I don't understand the difference between no, cno, and ino remap

" mswin.vimp - mappings to make copy/paste in Vimperator behave like Windows
" Maintainer: Doug Kearns <dougkearns@gmail.com>
" Last Change: 31 Oct 2008

noremap <C-q> <C-v>
noremap <C-Q> <C-z>
" TODO: this should probably be <C-Break> - see :help dos-CTRL-break in Vim
noremap <C-s> <C-c>

inoremap <C-q> <C-v>
inoremap <C-Q> <C-z>
inoremap <C-s> <C-c>

noremap <C-a> <C-v><C-a>
noremap <C-c> <C-v><C-c>
noremap <C-v> <C-v><C-v>
noremap <C-x> <C-v><C-x>
noremap <C-z> <C-v><C-z>
noremap <C-y> <C-v><C-y>

cnoremap <C-a> <C-v><C-a>
cnoremap <C-c> <C-v><C-c>
cnoremap <C-v> <C-v><C-v>
cnoremap <S-Insert> <C-v><C-v>
cnoremap <C-x> <C-v><C-x>
cnoremap <C-z> <C-v><C-z>
cnoremap <C-y> <C-v><C-y>

inoremap <C-a> <C-v><C-a>
inoremap <C-c> <C-v><C-c>
inoremap <C-v> <C-v><C-v>
inoremap <S-Insert> <C-v><C-v>
inoremap <C-x> <C-v><C-x>
inoremap <C-z> <C-v><C-z>
inoremap <C-y> <C-v><C-y>