On 04/05/11 16:40, Taylor Hedberg wrote:
Andrew Neil, Wed 2011-05-04 @ 16:35:45+0300:
Is there any way to prevent the default register from being clobbered
when using the paste command in visual mode?
By default, when you use the `p` or `P` commands in visual mode, the
selected text overwrites the default register. Is there any way that
you can instruct Vim to write that text to another register?
Thanks in advance,
Drew
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It's not exactly what you asked for, but keep in mind that the "0"
register always contains the most recently yanked text. So if you're
yanking from somewhere and then pasting what you yanked over a visual
selection, then the default register will indeed be clobbered, but
register "0" will still contain what you had yanked previously.
OTOH, if you're pasting something that comes from a "delete" operation,
IIUC (I didn't test) your deleted text, which was in register 1 before
the paste, has been pushed over to register 2 to make room for the newly
deleted text in register 1.
For details, see ":help quote_number", and remember that ":reg" will
tell you the contents of all registers at any time (both times without
the quotes).
Best regards,
Tony.
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