Ted Pavlic wrote:
> I've looked in:
>
> :help v_p
> :help registers
>
> and I cannot find this behavior documented, and so I wonder if it's a bug.
>
> If I visually select a block and hit "p" to paste from the unnamed
> buffer, the block I'm overwriting gets put into the unnamed buffer.
> There are two strange consequences of this:
>
> 1. If I need to make several replacements down my file, I have to do a
> new copy between each replacement (or use a new buffer).
>
> 2. If I select the same block over and over again, hitting "p" will
> toggle the block back and forth from its old state to its new state.
>
> Is this the desired behavior? If so, shouldn't it be documented?
>
> Also, is there any way to disable this behavior? I'm happier knowing
> that only "d", "c", "s", 'x", and "y" put things into the unnamed buffer.
No, it cannot be disabled. Deleted text always has to go somewhere.
I agree that this isn't easy to understand. Let me add this text to the
help:
The previously selected text is put in the unnamed register. If
you want to put the same text into a Visual selection several
times you need to use another register. E.g., yank the text to
copy, Visually select the text to replace and use "0p . You can
repeat this as many times as you like, the unnamed register will
be changed each time.
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