On Friday 30 April 2010 9:57:07 pm stosss wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:46 PM, sc <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Friday 30 April 2010 9:17:57 pm stosss wrote: > >> I went to :he y and I see: > >> :[range]y[ank] [x] Yank [range] lines [into register x]. > >> > >> so I do: > >> :'y,'zy"c > >> > >> It did not give me an error, but when I type: > >> > >> "cP > >> > >> I don't get what I yanked. > >> > >> What I am doing wrong? > >> What register is my yanked text in? > > > > i think it'll be in the un-named register (") > > Yes typing P dumped my text into the file. > > > i think what you wanted to do was > > > > :'y,'zyc > > This produced the E492 error > > So how does range yank into a named register work?
it works fine when you remember the space between the 'y' and the register (as it shows -- and i overlooked -- in the help module) what you really wanted to do was :'y,'zy c sc sc -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
