A simple plugin for transforming text on the clipboard in vim.
Sometimes you want to process a bunch of text and doing it directly in vim or in the shell is not possible -- like text in Confluence, on the web, or from a Word document. pastenreplace lets you setup a buffer to paste and automatically perform a vim command when vim gains focus.
Activate pastenreplace in an empty buffer:
:PasteAndReplaceStart %s/Kingly/Royal/g
Switch from vim to your web browser, copy some text, switch back to vim. The text will be pasted, transformed, and yanked back to the clipboard.
When you're done with pastenreplace, the stop command ends the automatic behavior:
:PasteAndReplaceStop
Alternatively, you can delete the buffer. pastenreplace is entirely buffer-local and works great with scratch buffers.
The argument passed to PasteAndReplaceStart are passed directly to :exec so
they can be a sequence of commands:
" Process some perforce output: remove notification for files that haven't
" changed and remove junk after the hyphen.
:PasteAndReplaceStart g/up-to-date/d|%sm/ - .*
pastenreplace pastes from @+ (the system clipboard) but yanks to the unnamed
register. See documentation for 'clipboard' to determine how this yank behavior
works for your configuration.