GVim: Shift + Insert dump instead of the clipboard text

Question

While editing inside gVIM, whenever I press Shift+Insert, it's insert the <S-Insert> text. I'm running on Ubuntu Maverick and compile Vim from source. This is really annoying. What's wrong with my VIM?

Answer 1

I've found out that Shift+ Insert does not work in gVim if :set paste is active. Instead of inserting the clipboard contents, it will insert the text "<S-Insert>". Normal (console) vim does not suffer from this problem, probably because shift-insert is a terminal thing in that case, and not something handled by Vim.

The solution for me was to turn off paste mode: :set nopaste.