On 02/21/2011 11:41 AM, David Kahn wrote:
Relatively new to vim. I know there are other ways to do this specific
task such as search/replace but I want to understand how to repeatedly
paste some text but also overwrite a certain character, in the case I
want to do it manually. This has brought me to need to understand if
there is a sort of clipboard/yank history.
For example, I have yanked this text:
.truncate(
I want to replace the comma ',' in the lines below with my yanked text
in each line:
word,12)
word2,12)
word3,12)
So what I do is move in regular mode to the first comma and press 'x' to
remove the comma, and then press 'p'... however instead of getting my
yanked text, I get the text now under the cursor, in this case '1'. So
how do I handle a yank > delete > put operation, and multiple times?
If you do a single copy/replace, you can select text visually and press
'p' to paste over it.
Here you need to paste over multiple times, the way to do this is to
copy into a register, e.g. visually select text then press "py, then
select text to copy over and press "pp (I use p register because it's
easy to type pp).
See :h registers for more.
You can also delete some text without overwriting default register,
by using "_x, you can read about it in the same help topic.
There's also a plugin called 'yankring', you can yank multiple
texts and then press 'p' to paste last one and immediately after
that press ctrl-p and ctrl-n to navigate yank history.
HTH, -Rainyday
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