On Nov 8, 4:25 pm, Michael Scheper <[email protected]> wrote:
> If I use cw, 'green' clobbers 'yellow' in the
> register,
If you've yanked 'yellow', then 'yellow' will be in the unnamed
register, but also in the numbered register 0. See :help quote_number.
Or, you could change to the black-hole register. Just like you can use
"add to delete a line and put it in the 'a' register, you can "acw to
change a word and put the old word in the 'a' register, or "_cw to
change a word and not put the old word anywhere.
> and I don't know of a way to paste in insert mode anyhow.
CTRL-R in insert mode inserts the contents of a register. Press CTRL-R
and then the name of the register to paste in insert mode. For
example, CTRL-R " pastes the unnamed register, and CTRL-R 0 pastes the
last yanked text (probably what you want). If your yanked text
includes control characters like ^M or ^H you'll want to use CTRL-R
twice. See :help i_CTRL-R. This also works on the command line.
I believe the tip John mentions may allude to all this (or at least it
should), but I didn't see it in the 3-second glance I gave the tip.
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