Ubuntu – vim struggles when copy-pasting large blocks of text in from an external window

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I select and copy a large block of plain text from some file (e.g. gedit). I run :set paste and then enter insert mode, and paste the text in using the right mouse-button menu. vim them uses 100% cpu for the next several minutes before successfully pasting my text in. The text is usually only a few pages, and takes less than a second to paste into other applications (gedit window, web window, etc). What is vim doing with all those clock cycles and how can I make this more efficient?

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You should probably file a bug report against vim on this one.

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This is what works for me (Ubuntu 13.10):

Reinstall vim as vim-gtk:

sudo apt-get install vim-gtk

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"+y

to paste to vim from clipboard type:

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I don't know why but comparing the output of vim --version shows that the usual vim installation is quite restricted compared to vim-gtk. Replacing vim with vim-gtk did not affect any plugings.

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To use the clipboard that way, you must have X forwarding enabled ssh -X (or ssh -Y, depending on the settings).

See How can I copy text to the system clipboard from Vim?.

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