Enhanced version of CUA bindings for Vim

9 years ago

This expands on/tweaks my previous snippets about "standard" (CUA) keybindings for select all and copy (Snippet #113) and paste (Snippet #166). I decided to retrain myself to use CTRL-b to enter visual block mode and free up CTRL-v for paste. Also, I added bindings for "cut" (CTRL-x).

" I select everything in a file far more than I increment an integer! Why not
" make CTRL-A do what it does in almost every other program?
nmap <C-a> ggVG
" CTRL-C doesn't do anything valuable in Normal or Visual mode. Why not map it
" to what it does in almost every other program?
vmap <C-c> "+y
nmap <C-c> "+yy
" Why not make Visual block mode use CTRL-B so we can free up CTRL-V for CUA?
nnoremap <C-b> <C-v>
nnoremap <C-v> "+p
vnoremap <C-v> "+p
nnoremap <C-x> "+dd
vnoremap <C-x> "+d