First several characters of clipboard deleted when pasting in Vim

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When I paste items into Vim, the first several characters are routinely missing. This has caused some serious errors. If I paste into gedit, for example, all lines are there. I can go back into Vim after a successful paste in gedit, with the same clipboard contents, and characters get deleted.

See the screenshot…vim starts at ta, whereas the gedit starts well before that. What is going on precisely with Vim???

to paste I've tried ctrl+V, ctrl+shift+insert, (COMMAND MODE) p and P.

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That's because vim is in command mode when you start it. Before pasting your code, you need to go into insert mode, for example, pressing the i key.

In your example, you are pasting your code as vim commands and when it reaches the first a in $cryptData enters insertion mode after current character.

If you are starting with vim: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Tutorial

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In vim, use gp and gP instead of p and P to leave the cursor after the pasted text. If you want to swap the bindings, put the following lines in your .vimrc:

noremap p gp
noremap P gP
noremap gp p
noremap gP P

Strangely, in vim, p and P leave the cursor on the last pasted character for a character buffer, even in compatible mode.

I don't know how to change this in other vi versions.

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