MVIM - Pasting text ending with newline inserts text on previous line

[eric-marshall]

FYI - I'm running on Sonoma 14.1 using MacVim r178 and no vim-specific initialization files.

First, from any application, I copy text that ends with a newline
Second, I launch mvim and enter insert mode, type some characters, then enter Command-V

The copied text gets inserted on the line above the characters I just typed, and the cursor is placed at the beginning of the line containing the typed characters, and insert mode is still active.

Why isn't the text simply inserted after the cursor, as I would expect?

Using the MacVim-supplied vim program within the Terminal application, the text is appended to the current line, after the typed characters.

Thanks in advance.

[ychin]

Cmd-V is mapped to "+P, which pastes the text before the cursor. This is because it makes more sense to do so when pasting non-line-based texts, as using p (instead of P) to put the text after the cursor will look like it skipped a character. It just happens that for line-based texts using p is probably better than P but it's just one of those Vim oddities as the before/after thing frequently trip people up. You can always manually do "+p instead.