ctrl-c and ctrl-v not working

[Abukamel]

I have tried to highlight text and use ctrl-c to copy and it does not work, also ctrl-v is not working in normal mode and i have to run it twice to work, don't know if this is the expected behavior or not.

but ctrl-c is not working neither in normal nor insert mode and to copy something i have to highlight it then right click and copy with mouse.

Regards

[maxbrunsfeld]

@Abukamel can you report your OS, Atom version and vim-mode version? Thanks!

[Abukamel]

@maxbrunsfeld

• OS: manjaro linux
• Atom version: 0.182.0
• vim-mode version: 0.182.0

[doublemarked]

I have similar problems, but it's been unclear whether it's by design or not. ^C and ^V only work in insert mode. If I'm not in insert mode I can right click on content and select Copy to copy or right click and Paste (both work). However, Cut (^X) works in normal mode, but I can only paste in insert mode. Maybe a key binding issue?

I would expect that all three (^C,^X,^V) would work in either mode. Currently I'm forced to select something with the mouse in insert mode so that I can cut, or I have to select in normal mode and use the mouse to right click and Copy. Either way is annoying.

Also, I would really prefer that pasting (^V) while in normal mode would put me into insert mode and paste the text. That seems like the logical functionality.

• OS: Ubuntu 14.10
• Atom: 0.177.0
• vim-mode version: 0.34.0

[michaellenahan]

• OS: Ubuntu 14.04
• Atom: 0.166.0
• vim-mode: 0.34

I was able to override the vim-mode ctrl-c keybinding by doing this:

• Go to your settings (Edit > Preferences or ctrl-,)
• On the left, click Keybindings

Here you can search for the keybindings, e.g. ctrl-c

• At the top, click the link to go to your keymap file
• Save the following to the keymap file (~/.atom/keymap.cson):

'atom-text-editor.vim-mode':
  'ctrl-c': 'core:copy'

• Restart Atom.

Now ctrl-c will copy text to clipboard in vim-mode.

A kind-of-related side note: it is useful in vim-mode settings to check Use Clipboard As Default Register - this allows things like yy to copy directly to the system clipboard.

[jpschw]

Thanks micaellenahan. This has been driving me nuts. There should be a checkbox for this imo.

[steveoh]

i fixed this but instead of core:copy i used unset!

[wil93]

Thanks @michaellenahan, I used a slightly different version of your keymap.cson:

'atom-text-editor.vim-mode.insert-mode':
  'ctrl-c': 'core:copy'

I think it's good to specify .insert-mode because:

1. In insert mode there's already ctrl-v to paste, so it makes sense to also have ctrl-c to copy
2. In visual mode I can already use y/p/P

[maxbrunsfeld]

So it sounds like we just need to remove the ctrl-c binding in insert mode on windows and linux.

In normal mode, ctrl-v is used to enter visual mode (specifically visual-block mode, which is currently a work in progress), so I don't think we should remove that binding. If you want to paste, you should either enter insert mode, use p, or edit your keymap.cson to override vim-mode's ctrl-v binding.

Is everyone ok with that solution?

[h-kaseya]

I am Windows user. And I want you to remove ctrl-c binding or enable to select it.

[danquirk]

I'm having this same issue on Windows with the latest vim-mode (0.54.0) on the latest Atom (1.0.2). Whatever solution is chosen it needs to be overrideable by keymap.cson. At the moment I can't even seem to override this myself whether in normal or insert mode. I'm not sure why the user keymap isn't given priority 1 by Atom for precisely this reason. You can see I tried to manually override ctrl-c in keymap.cson and vim-mode is overriding both the core copy command and my user defined one:

It's really annoying having to use the mouse to copy/paste any text out of Atom into something else.

[chrisvdb]

I use "Packages -> Vim Mode -> Settings -> Use Clipboard As Default Register" and just use the standard Vi copy/paste commands to copy in/out of Atom. I would argue that this should be the default setting for Vim Mode.

[mwielondek]

I agree with @chrisvdb 👍 That would be the least confusing option.

[Abukamel]

I agree with @chrisvdb 👍 That would be the least confusing option.

[DrBones]

@danquirk I had the same issue with the user keybinding not taking precedence but I believe that was because a keybinding with a more specific context that has the same hotkey takes precedence over a more general one.

I think there is a better way - but since I am new to this - I kinda hacked my ctr-c with

'atom-text-editor.vim-mode:not(.insert-mode)':
  'ctrl-c': 'core:copy'

Although I try to only use it as a crutch since @chrisvdb's hint is really how I think it should be done.