How to Make shift + insert Work in Vim?

# What happens when you press shift + insert in Vim?

In Linux, shift + insert is a very useful hotkey to paste from clipboard. But when you are trying to do the same in Vim, you can only get <S-Insert> instead of something you copied.

It is very annoying, right?

# How to fix it?

Very simple.

  1. Open you .vimrc which is usually under your home directory.
prompt> vim ~/.vimrc
  1. Just add below lines into your .vimrc file so that you map shift + insert to middle-click.
map <S-Insert> <MiddleMouse>
map! <S-Insert> <MiddleMouse>

Then shift + insert can work as expected to past from clipboard!

# What does map and map! do?

The map command creates a key map that works in normal, visual, select and operator pending modes. The map! command creates a key map that works in insert and command-line modes.

So you need to define both of them to make shift + insert work under every modes.

Thanks for reading. Hope it is useful to you!

# Reference

Vim Tips Wiki

What happens when you press shift + insert in Vim?
How to fix it?
What does map and map! do?
Reference