Theerasak Photha wrote:
On 2/15/07, Lev Lvovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I often find myself copy/pasting via my GUI text that I might have on
the screen, and then pasting it into the command to be performed - is
there any way to cut/paste text into the command area when I have it
highlighted with just the keyboard?
Assuming you're talking about ex commands, yes.
You can type <Ctrl-R> to insert a register, then the name of any
register, including the expression register, =. In your case, the name
would probably be '+', so <Ctrl-R>+.
Of course, you should first copy the text to the clipboard in whatever program
you're pasting from. Register + is "the Vim name" for the clipboard. Under
Windows, but not under X11, register * is another name for the same thing.
If you're pasting within a single instance of Vim, then you don't have to go
through the clipboard: just yank any text using one of the following:
y{motion}
to yant what the cursor moves over, or
[count]yy
to yank one (or [count]) line(s), or
{Visual}y
to yank the highlighted text;
then, in Command-line mode or in Insert mode, Ctrl-R " (i.e.,
control-R-for-Romeo double-quote) will insert the default register (containing
whatever you just yanked).
Best regards,
Tony.
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