This is a clipboard thing - windows for instance copies stuff in many forms and pastes it in the form most acceptable to the receiving app - plaintext for vim, html/rtf for a word processor... Dunno if there's a way for vim to say "gimme html".
I would try looking at your browser. In firefox, for example, you can select a source editor in about:config Set view_source.editor.external to true, and view_source.editor.path to your path to the vim binary. Then when you do view source, it'll popup in vim. You can /search for the text you wanted, yank it with its enclosing html, and paste it into a split buffer. You can do all this without having to use the mouse (assuming you have a view source hotkey), so I don't think it's too cumbersome. I know in lynx you can select a source editor as well, although I don't recall how right now, and probably in all other major browsers as well. *tim* -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:15 PM To: vim@vim.org Subject: copy pasting HTML code into vim Let's say I open up a webpage, select some text and paste it into vim. Then all I see in vim is the text I see on the browser. While this is OK most of the times, sometimes I wish there is a way to paste the actual HTML code directly into the vim. Selecting "view source of the webpage" and then copy pasting into vim will work. But it is very cumbersome and time consuming. So this is not an option for me. Currently the editor in docs.google.com does what I need, Is there any way the same can be achieved by vim? thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/
