Pasting to vim from clipboard cuts off first few lines

Question

I'm using vim in terminal on OSX with a blank .vimrc file. I try to paste the following from my clipboard:

#!/bin/bash
set -e
set -o pipefail

npm run precommit

using

:set paste

but in vim, what's pasted (using cmd-v) is

et -e
set -o pipefail

npm run precommit

Anybody know what's wrong?

Answer 1

You have to enter into insert mode before you can edit the file, you can do this by pressing the i key.

Answer 2

If you're using vim on OSX, you can add the following to your .vimrc:

set clipboard+=unnamed

Once you have done this, vim will use the system clipboard to read from by default for pasting. This means that, instead of having to enter insert mode first you can simply use p to paste. It also means that if you yank within vim, it's available to paste elsewhere.

I haven't tested this on any other OS, so if anyone has please feel free to add a comment...