Can't paste query in MacVim: "Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off"

[sophiebits]

If I open command-t in MacVim and try to paste a filename, it fails, saying

Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off

The same thing happens if I try to paste using <C-r>*. (In insert mode, <D-v> is actually mapped to <C-G>u<C-R><C-O>*.)

Is there any way to make this work?

[wincent]

Good question! I am not sure. Works in the terminal, with and without bracketed paste mode, but I can repro what you're seeing in MacVim.

There might indeed be a way to intercept the paste in MacVim (via a mapping) and turn it into keystrokes (either via feedkeys() or by directly call some Command-T method to appending to the current search string. Don't know off the top of my head though.

[sophiebits]

I seem to get the same thing in the terminal with bracketed paste mode too. Not sure where I'm going differently.

[wincent]

Interesting. Terminal works for me (specifically iTerm) both locally and remote (over SSH) with and without tmux, always with bracketed paste mode active. What's your set-up (terminal app, $TERM, versions etc)?

[rahul342]

Being running into the same issue on MacVim. Any luck?

[wincent]

Being running into the same issue on MacVim. Any luck?

Looks like the current input handling could be replaced with something based on getchar(). I suspect that would work in MacVim and in the terminal.

[wincent]

Finally fixed on the "pu" branch, so closing this. 😌